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Word: chess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While at Cairo he introduced basketball to Egyptian youngsters, wrote the first book of basketball rules in Arabic, started a 16-team Nile Valley League which is flourishing today. Blond, squarejawed, and piously Episcopalian, Dr. Eddy is married, has two boys, two girls, can beat any of them at chess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Eddy To Hobart | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

Potential chess players of the class of '40 who aspire to a position on the Freshman chess team will be given the opportunity of pitting their ingenuity against the resourcefulness of seasoned chess player Sidney S. Coggan at 7.15 o'clock this evening in the Upper Common Room of the Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '40 CHESSMEN ATTENTION! | 10/8/1936 | See Source »

...round of simultaneous matches former intercollegiate champion Coggan will take on as many freshman opponents as wish to participate. This exhibition, held under the direction of the Chess Club, is held annually to determine the chess strength of the incoming class, preparatory to forming the "A" and "B" teams for the fall season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '40 CHESSMEN ATTENTION! | 10/8/1936 | See Source »

...French painting to the U. S. Scouting for canvases, they went to the Duchamp brothers' studio, found four by youngest brother Marcel. All were cubist abstractions painted in a monotone, but quick-witted Marcel Du-champ gave them intriguing names: The King and Queen Surrounded by Swift Nudes; Chess Players; Sad Young Man on a Train; Nude Descending a Staircase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cubism to Cynicism | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...Painter Katherine Dreier's sister. Enormously skilful with his fingers, he invented a number of mechanical and optical gadgets. From only one did he make any money. It was a series of colored disks to be spun on the turntable of a phonograph, giving different optical illusions. Chess playing for a while kept Duchamp from thinking too much about his own ineffectualness, but when he began to win tournaments against professionals he gave that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cubism to Cynicism | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

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