Word: started
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Round One. Cornered and isolated from the start, Chancellor Snowden said with a twisted smile: "If the Young Plan could be adopted by majority vote, I suppose it would be carried today, but fortunately adoption must be unanimous...
...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 the same reply.? So most of the games will probably start on the queen's side of the board, and there will be a great many drawn games. Possibly Bogoljubow, who has an enterprising style that overwhelms weak players, will finish ahead of Capablanca, who plays cautiously against everyone and thus, though hardly ever beaten, draws against opponents whom Bugoljubow...
...only buys to resell but generally has resold before he buys. His procedure is to take an option, find a buyer, complete the purchase, make the sale. He has been known to invest $100,000 in an option, find no purchaser, let option and $100,000 lapse, start philosophically on another deal...
...Fight for Matterhorn (German). Knowing that audiences all over the world have been bored by faked scenes illustrating the perils of Alpine mountaineering, the producers of The Fight for Matterhorn did not dare to let their fly-like heroes start up the icy ledges until they had roped them together with a story. The anecdote they devised is a silly one about two men who were racing to see which of them could get up Matterhorn first, and how one suspected the other of wanting his wife. Hollywood scenarists could have got out something much better, but no Hollywood company...
...Aikens had to start out against the Old Oaks, junior champions in 1928, a team commanded by hard-riding Oldster Howard S. Borden with able young Michael Phipps at No. 1. They rode through to a 10-to-7 victory after trailing by two goals in the third chukker. Then they had to play the Greentrees. After four chukkers they were behind seven goals...