Word: chess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appropriately lazy cloud of smoke circled the room. It wasn't a large room, and so it was crowded, in a disorganized way. Most of the smoke rose from clusters around the three chess boards; most of the conversation seemed to come from a corner where two students were besieged by a crowd of eager gestures...
Indeed, the most amazing thing about the book is how completely it fails to sell the position, especially when compared with the power of Beyond Personality, or Mere Christianity. His life becomes, as he says, a kind of chess match with deity, which of course loses, checkmated into Christianity, dragged by the internal logic of all he as ever done, into the fold. Whether it is freedom or necessity does not matter, but that it makes his position entirely individual becomes clear. The reader emerges with the feeling that "for that kind of man, conversion was a necessity...
Half of the necessary sum has been pledged and the colleges attended by the other three members of the team have managed to raise nearly $1000 between them, leaving a small gap before the goal is reached. The sponsors of the team the Intercollegiate Chess League, had counted on the University to fill...
Lyman is one of the top players at the Boylston Chess Club in Boston and has played for the Club in its matches with rival chess clubs throughout the country...
This marks the first time that a team from the United States has entered the tournament, the Olympics of chess. The meet is sponsored by the International Students Association, a communist organization, with the Swedish Chess Federation and the International Chess Federation as co-sponsors...