Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chess champions are rarely swashbucklers. They call their ties "cravats" and tie them neatly but docilely; they wear their hats on the middle of their hard round heads. Among the gentlemen at Moscow is the imperturbable veteran, Dr. Emanuel Lasker, who slightly resembles his late fellow-countryman, Dr. Immanuel Kant. The years have failed to shake his prestige; he looks on tempests and is never shaken. The shrewd American, Marshall, did well in the first rounds of the tournament; the great Russian, Bogoljubow, lived up to expectations; a young man named Torre rose like a red ascending star...
Withal, they wrapped him round and round to be a perfect mummy, and lifted him into a box heavy as lead but golden, wherein they also put innumerable amulets of beauty and ghostly merit, as well as two swords, jewel-studded...
...start of the Union squash racquets tournament before the completion of the College tournament has caused both competitions to be slowed up during this week. Half the first round matches in the Union tourney have been completed, and today's meetings in the College competition will leave only three men in the running for College titular honors...
...clock this afternoon, G. D. Debevoise '26, Captain of the University team, will oppose P. M. Lenhart '27 for the right to enter the final round. Both Debevoise and Lenhart are in the upper half of the draw, and have worked their way to the semi-finals through stiff opposition. Debevoise was seeded number one, while Lenhart was third in the ranking. Today's loser will be the first favored contestant to suffer defeat, H. N. Rawlins '27 and R. S. Wright '26, seeded two and four, respectively, still being among the three contenders in the lower half...
Rawlins, Wright, and G. H. Perkins '26 are the rivals for finalist honors at the bottom of the draw. Wright has already clinched his place in the round before the finals, and will meet on Monday the winner of the Perkins-Rawlins clash...