Word: blackboard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yesterday's work included a long dummy scrimmage following a blackboard talk at which new plays were given out. Most of the new plays were of the straight running variety which Coach Horween has been emphasizing this fall. During the dummy scrimmage in which teams A and B opposed each other, the new plays were practiced, and numerous long passes were attempted. These worked much more successfully than at any preceding time this year...
...sitting for election returns proves a little weari-some, refreshments in the form of cider, doughnuts and cigarettes will be available. A large fire for the men to gather around at intervals will be burning in the rear of the Living Room. Returns will be tabulated on a large blackboard. Midnight editions of Boston newspapers will be distributed. All arrangements will be made to secure for Union members the most pleasant election evening to be had in Boston and vicinity...
...call" has been read, when a quotation has been fixed for delivery of silk in each of the next eight months, the men seated at the "ring" will begin to buy and sell. At the close of the day, the last quotations will be chalked up on a blackboard. On the following day, traders may not advance or lower these quotations (per pound) by more than 50?. Thus the exchange authorities hope to avert sudden panics. If every bank in Japan failed overnight, the price of silk could not vary by more than 50?* on the next...
...balloon; they reached for comedy like a first baseman trying to catch a butterfly. Josephine Hull played Mrs. Rodney with great cunning, while Dorothy Stickney, who was a mad murderess in Chicago, brought down cheers for making Claudia Kitts as raucous as a finger nail dragged across a blackboard...
...starter, marking up the scores on the blackboard in front of his tent, came the news that at the ninth hole Sarazen was floundering. He had a 39, but Cruickshank had a 30. And when Cruickshank finished the last nine in 36 the starter himself left the blackboard and joined the people who were crowding to get a look at this sure winner while cameras clicked and Cruickshank posed with a driver on one arm and his wife on the other. Just about that time Farrell had finished the first nine. His score...