Word: skies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Minds battled like searchlights fencing in a night sky. Reti of Czecho-Slovakia, who can play 25 games blindfolded, made an "oversight" which cost him a game in a few moves. Marshall of the U.S. held his own. But there was one man who played as if an immobile, enormous shape, looming unseen behind him, directed with Gargantuan fingers the movement of his smaller hands upon the Lilliputian kings. Once, it is true, he made a misplay, uncovered his queen. The watchers sucked in their breath. Surely now this Merlin was done for. But his opponent, Spielmann...
...Russian sky is very large and under it some of the queerest things in history have happened. One of them happened last week. Leon Trotzky, ne Bronstein, former War Lord of Russia, arrived in Moscow. His entrance was as quiet as was his exit last January (TIME, Jan. 26). There were no bands, no cheering people, no officials?the Kremlin was cold to his return. At the same time, Grigori Zinoviev, Chairman of the Third (Communist) Internationale, nicknamed "the bomb-boy of Bolshevism," left Moscow for the Caucasus, allegedly for his health...
...Golden Sky (Feitelson) shows the influence of Giotto. Nude figures dream in a coppice, while the sun, drowning in the gulfs of the West, floods them with moted yellow light, tarnishing the trees with gold, melting to rose the ivory of their bodies...
...overcast sky and a bitingly cold wind were responsible for the cancelling of both the University and Freshman baseball games yesterday afternoon. The first nine was to have met Dartmouth and the 1928 players were scheduled for Cushing Academy but a few minutes before starting time it was thought that the day was too cold to make fair baseball possible and both contests were abandoned...
...Santa Maria di Capua. Some 100 other Mithraic shrines had been known in Italy, but none so complete as this. Frescos presented Mithras as a strong youth, in brilliant red tunic with green cuffs and gold fringe, sacrificing a white bull with red nostrils beneath a blue, star-studded sky...