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...System as Servant. Because the actual trick-taking value of a hand depends on how the other cards lie, the bridge player must strive to 1) infer the contents of the unseen hands, and 2) convey the picture of his own hand to his partner. In these tasks, a bidding system is an indispensable tool-but so are attention, memory, psychological perceptivity and clear thinking, plus that obscure talent called "card sense." In addition, a really good bridge player has a talent that Charles Goren defines as "the ability to make sound decisions under pressure." Rules, he warns, are made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: King of the Aces | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...analogy, he said, in a game of chess, according to the Foreign Affairs article, the queen's role would be one of accommodation to the pawns, from which one would erroneously infer that "all pieces in the (international) chess board are created equal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirk Asserts Free World Deceived By Extremist Nationalism of Arabs | 7/31/1958 | See Source »

...stable overall price structure based on supply and demand. "If prices are free to reflect changes in consumer demand, increases in some items will be offset by decreases in others. Few people seriously doubt that price stability is essential to economic growth. Yet there are those who infer that there is no connection between the two. One does not exist for long without the other. It is like asking whether the mother or the father is preferable in creating a family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Wanted: Price Cuts | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

...based on a false view of the community. It is not a magazine with a crusade. And it is not any of the other Quarterlies, because they are all pseudo-academic and dull. Audience's aims never become more positive than this, and we must infer them--its aims are to be psuedo-unacademic and, above all, undull. In attempting to avoid dullness the editors of Audience have collected a strange assortment of contributors including I. A. Richards and names normally associated with the Advocate. The impression on glancing at the table of contents is one of a literary...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: Audience | 5/28/1957 | See Source »

...couldn't see any purpose served by your article except to infer that Ed Murrow . . .was deliberately attempting to distort the situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 27, 1956 | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

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