He made it to match point three times and still lost, but you can't come much closer than that.

All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.[…]Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.

During 1992 and 1993 Paul Terwilliger introduced a new tool called the subconstituent algebra for studying the underlying structure of association schemes through a series of three papers [21], [22], and [23]. Terwilliger introduced a method for studying commutative association schemes by defining a new algebra that is noncommutative, finite dimensional, semisimple C-algebra. The subconstituent algebra is now popularly referred to as the Terwilliger algebra.

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