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Excelsior

1) Chess problem 2) Fine wood shavings 3) Motto of the Empire State 4) Packing 5) Packing material 6) Padding material 7) Play by HM Harwood 8) Short story by PG Wodehouse 9) Wadding 10) Wood shavings
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Excelsior

1) Motto
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Excelsior

a problem in which a pawn on its starting square in the initial position moves the length of the board to be promoted during the course of the solution. Named after one such problem by Sam Loyd; see Excelsior (chess problem).
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Excelsior

[Longfellow] Excelsior is a brief poem written and published in 1841 by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The famous Sam Loyd chess problem, Excelsior, was named after this poem. ==Synopsis== The poem describes a young man passing through a town bearing the banner `Excelsior` (translated from Latin as `ever higher`, also loosely but more widely a...
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Excelsior

[chess problem] ==Backstory== Loyd had a friend who was willing to wager that he could always find the piece which delivered the principal mate of a chess problem. Loyd composed this problem as a joke and bet his friend dinner that he could not pick a piece that didn`t give mate in the main line (his friend immediately identified the pawn o...
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Excelsior

[short story] `Excelsior` is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, which first appeared in the U.K. edition of Argosy magazine on July 1, 1948 under the title `The Hazards of Horace Bewstridge`, and was later included in the collection Nothing Serious (1951). It is one of Wodehouse`s many golf stories, told by the Oldest Member. The story displ...
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Excelsior

[smack] Excelsior is an authentically restored fishing smack of the Lowestoft fishing fleet and a member of the National Historic Fleet. She was built by John Chambers of Lowestoft in 1921 and worked until 1936 before being converted into a motor coaster. In 2011 Excelsior celebrated her 90th birthday. During her time as a motor coaster she...
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Excelsior

[typeface] Excelsior is a serif typeface, designed by Chauncey H. Griffith, and presented by Mergenthaler Linotype in 1931. It is one of five typefaces in Griffith`s `Legibility Group` which contains typefaces especially well-suited to newsprint. Before designing this font, Griffith consulted the results of a survey of optometrists regardin...
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Excélsior

Excélsior is a daily newspaper, founded by Rafael Alducin and published in Mexico City since 1917. During the 1950s and 1960s, the newspaper`s editorial stance was of a relatively liberal bent, under the editorship of Julio Scherer García. After Scherer left the newspaper in 1976, the editorial stance became more overtly supportive of the Insti....
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