Word: chess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deadly Grip. Through most of his ups & downs Birdsall Sweet kept his spirits high, learned to make the best of his ironclad life. He learned checkers, chess and cards, dictated his plays to a nurse. He followed baseball avidly, improved his bridge with the help of visiting Vassar girls. He read, with a nurse turning every page, and worked his eyes so that he soon had to have strong glasses. Last year he learned canasta...
Captain William H. Watts led the chess team to a victory over Cornell yesterday by a score of 4 to 1. Watts won his match with a sustained attack that kept his opponent in increasing trouble throughout the game. Broward Craig won on the eighteenth move, and Harold Zirin was the other winner...
...26th group, the Chess Club, asked only for a place to play, and will have access to a general conference room...
Most of the other applicants already on record are smaller groups such as the Chess Club or organizations which have large memberships but require little office space...
...defies them, he is called an obstructionist. His real bosses, the voters, are innumerable and nagging, usually indifferent to his best work (which passes unnoticed), and often hostile because of insignificant or irrelevant happenings. His every move is conditioned by a set of rules that would confuse a good chess player. The job would seem unrewarding-yet men ask for it, fight for it. Some perform it with distinction. Among the 96 members of the Senate these ten men stand out by their ability, devotion and integrity...