Word: chess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Swift and masterful was the style in which veteran Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré consolidated the position of his new Cabinet, last week, smacked down his program of action before Parliament, and swept an enemy or two from the political chess board...
...team of Harvard chess players will-meet a Yale representation over the boards tonight in the Lyceum Commons at New Haven at 7.30 o'clock. Harvard will be represented by a group of players led by Captain F.R. Chevelier '29, last year's outstanding chessman for the University...
...Richard Wendower, H. C. Montgomery lost to F. N. Rich '31, K. S. Woodbury lost to Norton Long '31, I. J. Odenwelle lost to E. J. Davis '29, H. B. Cooper lost to John Benson '30, P. A. Roy lost to F. R. Chevalier '29, president of the Harvard Chess Club, C. D. Wlengend lost to W. A. Robinson '31, Robert Montgomery lost to Ordway Southard...
Harvard defeated West Point seven matches to one when the two chess teams met Saturday evening at the Boston Chess Club...
...muscular endurance sank far down, as did his basal metabolism, and his efficiency upon the typewriter. His blood pressure, pulse, temperature, sleeping time, and ability in mental multiplication remained unchanged by Fletcherism. The only beneficial effect he found in Fletcherism was a marked increase in his ability to solve chess problems...