Word: 25th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, coming up to the 25th game, Challenger Alekhine had won nine games, Champion Euwe four, and eleven were drawn. If Dr. Alekhine were to win the 25th game he would clinch the match (15½ points to 9½) and the remaining five games would be merely exhibitions. Played in The Hague before a large gallery of chess experts, the game ended after 43 moves when Dr. Euwe resigned, relaxed, reached his hand across the board to congratulate his opponent. After two months of play. Dr. Alexandre Alekhine, Russian-born Parisian, had regained the world's chess...
...other eminences are better marked: his Oak Park high school football teams, 1910 to the first public exhibits of his own paintings in and 1913; the days of "Red" Grange at Illinois finally the present gridiron season, because it 25th consecutive year as Illinois coach. On this anniversary, he looks back on a record of seven. Ten championships in 16 years. At the easel, he earned distinction for his spontaneous, bold, pastels and oils...
...touted Notre Dame team which Coach Elmer Layden thought was the best he had yet assembled, scored twice as many first downs as Illinois, and twice as many yards from scrimmage. But at the end of the game Zuppke's rings were still in order. Zuppke's 25th anniversary year had begun with a small triumph. Score...
...tennists once won and later, until this year, lost Davis Cup matches, U. S. balloonists once won and now lose the annual James Gordon Bennett Balloon Race-No. 1 gasbag event of the year. Last year they were too discouraged to enter. Last week, as the 25th James Gordon Bennett Balloon Race got under way in Brussels, there was again no U. S. entry, possibly because the race was suddenly called for June instead of September as in the past. Entered were twelve balloons from five nations. Like monstrous dirty soap bubbles, they drifted up from Brussels toward Germany...
Today begins the 25th Reunion of the Class of 1912. Starting of 9 o'clock this morning when the first of the returning graduates registers at the Union, plans made early last winter will be well on their way to being carried...