Word: winning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your issue of July 29, p. 29, in a note, you refer to the "contribution and refund" system in vogue at certain race tracks, whereby bettors get "prize" for around the the horse law by they hope (bet) "contributing" will to a win, and add: The same system is in use on tracks in Xenia, Toledo and Cincinnati...
...subcommittee of a Cabinet subcommittee was established, "to consider and report upon" the situation, but even its chairman. Laborite Rt. Hon. William Graham. President of the Board of Trade, took only perfunctory steps. Inference : Laborite best minds thought, last week, that the Lancashire strikers, if let alone, would win a not too long drawn out victory...
...will not be ended until Aug. 28. Safest prediction perhaps was that the favorite opening would be the Queen's Gambit, which seemed likely to be adopted in 60%, perhaps 70%, of the games. Chess Masters have a tendency to play not to lose rather than to play to win, and the queen's side opening leads to intricate but not explosive posi tional play. A favorite amateur opening which begins with both players 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...
...Fields jumped forward, discharged a long right-handed foul which sent the challenger writhing to the floor and automatically made him champion. In his dressing room Fields regained speech but not memory. Said he: "How did it happen? What happened? How did he flatten me? How did I win?" About 30,000 people paid $125,000 to see the foul...
...Scoring is by points. A win counts 1; a draw ½ a loss 0. Each player plays each competitor once, drawing; for the White or Black pieces...