Word: blackboarding
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...campus, the son of an associate principal of the school. Short, brown-and-silver-haired Flick Hoxton, a great Southern school athlete, got his nickname either from his habit of lying in bed and spitting out the window or from his extraordinary quickness of hand. Standing at the blackboard before his class, he used absentmindedly to place five or six pieces of chalk on the back of his hand, toss them in the air and catch them...
Cartoonist Dahl, provided with a blackboard, will make a few of his famous funny drawings that appear daily as a strip in the Herald. Unfortunately, members of the Red Sox baseball team cannot attend the smoker as was announced earlier in the week...
Everyone wrote busily. Everyone was very happy and very busy--hundreds of pens and hundreds of brains busy. Ten minutes after the half hour, the proctor walked to the blackboard and, in a dramatic silence, wrote in large, sprawling figures. "11:30." Everyone applauded. Then everyone swore. Then everyone wrote again. Ten minutes later, the proctor announced that the exam was over. Everyone was very happy because they had had so much time to write down all they had learned in the past twenty weeks. Only thirty-five essay questions...
...teachers, who merely turn the paper around. Frank also does arithmetic upside down. He reads more easily holding his book upside down, but has learned to read rightside up with better than average speed. He has also learned to write-slowly and laboriously, but legibly on a blackboard in the ordinary way, but it is much easier for him to write upside down...
...powder to blow them to hell," Dr. Lemon authored a new kind of textbook, From Galileo to Cosmic Rays. Written with insight and humor but with scientific integrity, it was illustrated with sly drawings by Artist Chichi Lasley, one of which showed a student fleeing in horror from a blackboard covered with difficult equations...