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Word: pawning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Capablanca Bested | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...frequently happens," said Dr. Erickson to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday, "That an insignificant pawn becomes the deciding factor in the great chess game of nations; chess however is child's play compared to the complexities of Balkan politics. Because of her helplessness, her half-developed state, her strategic location, a blow at Albania shakes the entire body of Europe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ERICKSON PINS HOPES FOR ALBANIAN GROWTH ON BETTER EDUCATION | 12/10/1927 | See Source »

...Caliban of the Pawn Shop", a one act comedy by W.W. Howells '30, of the drama group in English A, has been accepted for the stage by the dramatic committee of Boston Settlement Houses. The play will be produced some time in the near future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTERSECTIONAL DEBATE TO BE HELD BY ENGLISH A GROUPS | 4/15/1927 | See Source »

Feverish rumors continued last week that Albania, backed by Italy, is preparing war on Jugoslavia. Famed Croatian Jugoslav leader Stefan Raditch even went so far last week as to exclaim: "We are not afraid of the Italian Colossus with feet of clay, nor of its puppet-pawn, Albania. . . . We are against war, but if the Italians want to fight we will fling them into the Adriatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALBANIA: Piratical Dictature | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...world's largest theatre. They came-the Mayor, actors, chorines, bankers, merchants, lawyers. They beheld a vast, bronzed, Spanish Renaissance structure imposing its Moorish splendor upon the corner of Seventh Ave. and 50th St., in the backyard neighborhood of Broadway, otherwise asprawl with garages, night clubs, hotdog stands, pawn-jewelers. Inside it was golden-brown, well ventilated, pagan-like in its florid adornment. Three organists played in grand concert on a Kimball organ, which is said to have the properties of a symphony orchestra. Then came an invocation: "Ye Portals bright . . . unite us all to worship at beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Mar. 21, 1927 | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

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