Word: chess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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South End Boy's Club was the victim of a 5 to 0 defeat at the hands of the College "B" chess team last night in a match held in Kirkland House Junior Common Room...
...match to determine the Metropolitan League Chess Championship, the University Chess Club established a decisive 2 1/2-1 1/2 lead over the Boylston Chess Club Last night...
...Rapid Transit" is like ordinary chess except that the players are allowed only ten seconds per move. The high scorers in the preliminary round will play a final round to determine the winners who will receives prizes of books on chess...
...with the solidest of reputations for giving unbiased advice, the firm still thrives, acting as fiduciary for funds totaling over $100 million. Its present head-and fifth in direct line of descent from the founder-is staid, bespectacled George Emlen Roosevelt, 59, a noted amateur chess player and yachtsman. He will be succeeded ultimately by one of his two sons or five nephews, in the tradition of the family motto: Qui Plantavit Curabit (he who planted will tend...
...must view this display of young animal spirits with sympathy and understanding. Even the most industrious students need relaxation, and the Union management to date has supplied only ping-pong tables, inexpensive dances, discussion groups, bridge, chess, music, and stamp clubs, opportunity to create a Yardling publication, and a debating society. Students have stayed away in droves from these pedestrian activities in favor of the obviously superior sport and excitement of springing butter from a knife onto a convenient ceiling...