Word: whist
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...southernmost outpost of Russia's vast American colony, lay only 100 miles up the California coast from San Francisco. American ships regularly anchored at New Archangel (now Sitka), a thriving capital that boasted two scientific institutes, a public library, a college, and such civilized amusements as the theater, whist parties and formal balls. Then in 1867, Russia ceded its American possession to the U.S. for $7,200,000-a price that comes to about $12 per square mile. It was the crowning irony of one of the more ironic chapters in Russian history. For Russia did not really want...
...Lose Friends. At Ohio State, Ferguson is a C student in physical education. A quiet, reserved senior, he has lived off campus since his recent unpublicized marriage, has few pastimes other than roller skating and bid whist. Aware of the fame that only football could have brought him, he says: "Football has helped my life tremendously...
Sharp & Scholar. To the professional satisfaction of his older brother, William, a melancholy anatomist who became one of London's more fashionable physicians, John Hunter could bargain for corpses with the finesse of a whist sharp (which he was). But he had other talents too. A careless scholar, an indifferent cabinetmaker, John at 20 joined his brother's London medical school. He learned fast: within a year he was teaching one of William's dissecting classes; later he helped on his brother's major discovery-the first accurate descriptive anatomy of a pregnant uterus...