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Word: chess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'B' Chessmen Gain 5-0 Victory In Year's Fourteenth Conquest | 3/15/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chess Club Takes Impressive Lead In Crucial Match | 3/1/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chess Club Takes Impressive Lead In Crucial Match | 3/1/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Who Plants, Tends | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bored? | 2/11/1947 | See Source »

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