Word: move
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This move follows a similar regulation at Williams, and continues a policy which has been instituted in the majority of colleges throughout the country...
...received recently a cable from the English publisher of Gilbert Frankau's latest novel, "Gerald Cranston's Lady" (published here on Febbruary 20), announcing that 40,000 copies had been sold--this number establishing a record average of over a thousand copies a day. Mr. Frankau is said to move up, by what can only be described as an outburst of popular favor, to the very top of the small list of a half-dozen writers of best-sellers in Great Britain...
...room most of the time, she is the gayest, the most effervescent of women. When I saw her the other day she was busily planning to take up again her favorite work of "play-doctoring" which she did for years. Said she: "Just because I can't move about is no reason why I can't sit still and rehearse a play!" She accused me of being too young to remember her play The Melting of Molly! which, of course, was absurd; for I remember that delightful whimsical tale well. She laughed and joked, received several other callers...
...opening day Champion Capablanca was unable to do better than tie with Frenchman Janowski. For nine moves Janowski and Capa blanca followed closely the Queen's Gambit Declined. Then Janowski (white) surprised the champion by moving pawn to King's rook 4. The champion proceeded to play for a draw, and got it on the 20th move by cornering Janowski's king in perpetual check...
...first time. Coach Haines also had the dormitory and 150-pound Freshmen straining the oar-locks of the Leviathan, or twenty-oared punt. This punt, contrary to expectations, makes excellent time under the impulse of the twenty oarsmen, and from the standpoint of the Coach being able to move between the oarsmen while rowing, it is a success...