Word: chess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's Chess Club will open its season in a few days with a simultaneous exhibition at the Union, at which a member of the Club will engage in a number of matches with Freshmen candidates for entrance into the club...
...practitioner of the Old Diplomacy. He knows what his country wants and is not ashamed to live like a discriminating prince while getting it. Last week his immediate purpose was to wangle Soviet Russia into the League of Nations but he was preparing other, greater moves in the endless chess game of international statesmanship. With the clear conscience of a Frenchman who was in his childhood when German troops occupied Paris in 1871, M. Barthou is out to encircle the Nazi Reich with a chain of alliances calculated to ensure that Paris shall never be bombed, shelled or occupied again...
...season, setting a new track record for 1 1/16 miles and adding $19,500 to his $77,000 winnings. ¶Dr. Alexander Alekhine of Paris: 15- points to 10½; a match of 26 games which started April 1 in Baden Baden, against Efim D. Bogoljubow. for the chess championship of the world; in Berlin...
...appearance of a black cat. Next day the uneasy U. S. visitors try to escape but are thwarted by Karloff who has his chilly eye on the bride (Jacqueline Wells), for a Black Mass that evening. Karloff agrees to stake the girl's freedom on a chess game with Lugosi. Karloff wins...
Sidney S. Coggin '34 won the Vane Trophy that goes to the Intercollegiate chess champion each year. Eric W. Marchand '36 placed third in the tournament...