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Word: tournaments (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five years the Little Theatre Tournament, held in Manhattan for the David Belasco Cup, has symbolized the removal of amateur theatricals from small-town drawing-rooms and carriage sheds to more or less formal theatres. The contestants produce one-act plays only, either new or published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Belasco Cup | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...scientific. Every position in checkers is a problem in pure mathematics. As one who has (in 1906) worked in the upper reaches of differential and integral calculus, and who has also spent many years (not recently) in the study of checkers and in original analysis of published match and tournament games, I may be privileged to speak on this phase. Curiously enough, chess has been almost wholly the choice of the intelligensia (real and fancied) and has been given, of course, widest publicity by the press. Again, the game of chess has enjoyed the favor, as a rule, of those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 9, 1927 | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...University tennis tournament, which began before the Spring Racess, four quarter-final and one semi-final matches have been played...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS TENNIS TOURNEY TO BEGIN NEXT MONDAY | 4/28/1927 | See Source »

Three separate tennis tournaments, open respectively to the Senior, Junior, and Sophomore classes, will get under way on Monday. The seven men who make the best showing in each tournament will represent their classes in the class tennis league. The Freshmen will be represented in the league by the second Freshman team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS TENNIS TOURNEY TO BEGIN NEXT MONDAY | 4/28/1927 | See Source »

Disregarding the superstition which dictates early disaster to the medalist, Mr. Voight proceeded to play through the tournament proper in form highly satisfactory to himself. In the finals he met Eugene Homans, 18, Englewood, N. J., schoolboy; triumphed, 4 and 2; added the name of Voight to the list of onetime caddies* who have made good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Onetime Caddy | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

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