Word: trumps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Having bid out of turn, a bidder is not penalized if he makes his bid sufficient before the error is noticed and before another bidder has bid. But the sufficient bid must be in the same suit (or in No Trump if that was the insufficient bid). If the error is noticed and called before being corrected, and before another bid has been made, the offender must make his bid sufficient and his partner is barred from the auction. But in this case, the insufficient bid may be made sufficient in any suit or in No Trump...
...help one another stuff graphed. Well, Friday the lecturer posted a notice about the hour exam in it: I suppose to give us something to think about while he talked. And though I kept wondering all through the hour whether I should have taken Wyn out of his no trump on the fourth hand last night, the thought of that notice on the board greatly irritated me. But after a while I did get fairly well settled--that nice state between sleep and waking. The fellow on my right is a graduate student and is apparently going to publish when...
President Coolidge has made his position clear. He opposes any substantial increase in the American navy. In the face of claims that the British and Japanese are increasing their subsidiary ships, which were not limited by the Washington Conference, the President can still play his trump card, and call another conference to limit subsidiary building. Some say that Great Britain and Japan would welcome such a proposal. If naval rivalry is to end, this action must be taken eventually. Ordinary common sense dictates that it be done now, before more millions are sunk into ship to be scrapped...
...world's trade. Since the War, the development of African Copper properties, such as Tanganyika Copper, has already made its influence felt in the world's markets. In time, it is probable that coal and oil resources will be discovered too. The Germans still hold one trump card in African colonization-Bayer 205. This drug, discovered by the same laborious research that produced Salvarsan, is apparently a certain cure for the terrible "sleeping sickness," and as such may make huge areas in Africa habitable. The Germans keep the secret of this drug very well, and intend...
...night with neighbors, Although the wagging tongues are silenced by a perfectly good explanation of the affair, Alice, becoming jealous of the attention paid by O'Keele to her older sister, persuades the latter to put the worst interpretation on the visit to New York. With this as her trump card, Alice induces Terry to agree to, the announcement of his engagement...