Word: posie
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...favorite opening would be the Queen's Gambit, which seemed likely to be adopted in 60%, perhaps 70%, of the games. Chess Masters have a tendency to play not to lose rather than to play to win, and the queen's side opening leads to intricate but not explosive posi tional play. A favorite amateur opening which begins with both players moving their king's pawns two squares ahead also seemed unlikely to be important, as even when the player with White opens with the king's pawn move, the Black player has become increasingly wary about countering with...
...officially enforcement of a Reform which they effected unofficially. What they did mind was not having their hard-hitting prohibition enforcer, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, placed in charge. Nor was Mrs. Willebrandt particularly pleased with what some called a "snub" and last week intimated that she would resign her posi-tion as Assistant Attorney General...
Supply & Demand. The pleasing posi-tion of copper may well be contrasted with the less pleasing position of oil. Oil has notably suffered from overproduction. Copper has neatly adjusted its supply to its demand...
...Senator Peter Norbeck of South Dakota, long an insurgent, exclaimed, "We will not go into past regrets." Representative Charles A. Christopherson, farm-relief advocate, announced that all doubt concerning a third term had been swept away. The President made no speeches, no promises, receded not an inch from the posi-tion he took in vetoing the McNary-Haugen farm-relief bill (TIME, March 7). But the honor of his presence, the potency of his office, turned suspicion into acclamation as hostility succumbed to hospitality. Should South Dakota love the President in November as it does in June, the state...
...short time, he was Foreign Commissar; but, early in 1918, he be came Commissar of War or Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army, a posi tion which he held until last February. The dominating trait of his character is energy. One week he was in Siberia, another at Moscow, another at Sevastapol. Always was he on the move. His discipline made that of the Tsars a sort of mother's love and it was said that every officer and soldier went in terror of his life. So much for his efficiency...