Word: chess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Appearing in all hall entries Thursday morning will be forms on which participants may register for the ping pong tournament. Lists will be posted in the Union the following Monday, and play will begin at that time. Similar procedure is planned for successive weeks to form bridge and chess competitions...
...third new feature will include informal pictures of each major extracurricular organization plus snapshots and articles covering nearly every other organization here. There are at least 30 of these, such as the Stamp Club, the Gliding Club, the Chess Club, the John Reed society, and the Council of Government Concentrators. Moreover, a two-page spread on the club system, with informal snapshots of club activities, will be printed for the first time...
...from a long line of noble fighting men. His father was Husein-ibn-Ali, onetime King of Hejaz, and he traces his ancestry in the male line straight back to the son of the daughter of Mohammed. He likes to drive in swift motorcars, breed fancy camels and play chess all night...
...chess, war or the smash-&-grab of totalitarian diplomacy, the essence of strategy is to make a single move serve more than one offensive purpose. Strategically impeccable, therefore, was Japan's move-of-the-week, landing eight Army columns along a 250-mile strip of South China coast between Hong Kong and the Indo-China border. It was intended: 1) to menace one of free China's best supply lines; 2) to help isolate British Hong Kong; 3) to strengthen the position of the large Japanese garrison on Hainan Island just off the coast; 4) to make...
...first floor has a large common room equipped with magazines and chess boards, a study room, a radio and phonograph room, and the cafeteria itself. In the basement are a large locker room and a ping-pong room...