Word: chess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yale's lesser known books include works on Numismatics, Penology, and Librarianship. Princeton is contest with among others, publications on Chess. Those fortunate to live in Washington, can go to the Congressional Library for copious information on Alcoholism. Tomperence, and the Tobacco and Drug Habits of all nations...
...fourth section,--hobby-talent,--holds the Chess, the Glee, and Flying clubs and the Band. Political activities are the fifth category while College. House, and class service activities (Crimson Key and Union Dance Committee) are the sixth...
...Michael Arlen, applies a ridiculous ending to an inane plot, and remains humorous in spite of it all. But a short piece on "Answers to the World's Most Famous Letters" falls down badly at the end. The purposely uninformed commentaries by Thomas Edwards, on quantum mechanics and chess, collapse en route, the former from overelaboration of one idea and the latter from complete abandonment of the original theme...
Secretary at The Hague. According to his own recollection, Dulles lived "a curious sort of life at Princeton," playing a lot of whist, poker and chess. One of his professors, anxious to know whether his course was too difficult, asked Foster how much time he had to spend studying for it. "I exaggerated a bit," Dulles recalls, "and told him one hour a week. I had a knack for exams. I could read the course book the night before and remember it well enough to pass...
...care of her," were Trotsky's dying words to his friends. "She has been with me for a long time." Natalia Sedova, daughter of a bourgeois Ukrainian family, was a student in Paris when, in 1902, she met the bookish, intolerant young intellectual who spent his time playing chess in smoky cafés, dreaming violent dreams of world revolution. For the next 38 years, she followed Leon Trotsky around the world-Spain, Switzerland, Finland, the U.S., Norway, Germany, Turkey, Russia -into exile and to the gates of many a prison...