Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...twenty-first page of TIME, Aug. 5 there is a the reference to Ambassador Dawes as a lawyer. I would like to be corrected if I am mistaken, but I am under the impression that he is a banker, well known in Chicago financial circles...
...case of dealing with the prostate gland of Raymond ("Le Lion") Poincare. At the time of his resignation as Prime Minister the illness of the "Lion of Lorraine" was described as "gastric fever'' (TIME, July 29). Last week, however, the precise facts were made known by Surgeons Marion and Cosset...
...year 1347 King Charles of Bohemia, while hunting through a rocky, gorge-like valley, discovered that in the streams of the district flowed waters with remarkable medicinal properties. Since that period many a health seeker, and also many a fashionable tourist, has come to Karlovy Vary?better known as Carlsbad. Last week, however, Carlsbad became the centre of intellectual as well as medicinal activity, for to the famed spa came 22 chess Masters and Grand Masters* to play in the fourth annual Carlsbad International Tournament. They came not seeking health?for, contrary to popular impression, chess players are more often...
...champion, is a large man with a red face and a hooked nose. He plays a dashing, "romantic" game; seldom draws but often loses. Marshall's style is fascinating to the onlooker, but usually does not finish him high up among first class players. He invented what is known as the Cambridge Springs variation in the Queen's Gambit. Marshall is also a bridge expert with a fondness for No Trump bids...
...third onetime Russian is Frederick Brown, known now as a daring speculator. He not only buys to resell but generally has resold before he buys. His procedure is to take an option, find a buyer, complete the purchase, make the sale. He has been known to invest $100,000 in an option, find no purchaser, let option and $100,000 lapse, start philosophically on another deal...