Word: filed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When play ended on the first night of the 34th game, Alekhine had an advantage of one pawn; a blocked pawn on the queen's rook file. Play began the next night with the 41st move. On the 47th, both queens fell, leaving Alekhine with a rook, four pawns and the king. Capablanca refused to take the odd pawn at the price of exchanging rooks; Alekhine sent his king to destroy the Cuban's pawns and on the 82nd move, play stopped for the evening. The next night Capablanca did not, in the face of sure defeat, resume it. After...
...result of the new ruling requiring vaccination, which took effect this fall, every new student, both undergraduate and graduate, had first to file a certificate of successful vaccination with the Department of Physical Education before being admitted to the University. No exceptions were made to any student; ten days grace, however, was given to those who had not been vaccinated before their arrival in Cambridge...
...enclosing illustrated cover of Sept. 19, 1927 issue along with the article that goes with it, thus destroying the continuity of my file. I would not care for this issue to appear in same...
Spoils His File...
...quanta, or trifling pulsations of energy. Light is thus considered the effect of many quanta popping after one another. Dr. A. J. Dempter of the University of Chicago told how he had directed the light from a single vibrating atom at a thinly silvered mirror. In theory a single file of quanta battered at the mirror. Part of these reflected away, part passed through, just as would ordinary light. Possibly, thought Dr. Dempter, the quantum, smallest theoretical unit, was split into less comprehensible smithereens...