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...Portuguese colonialism was one of the best and most recent examples--Bok probably wasn't used to his job yet, so the statement was pretty. And if it wasn't as flashy a piece of moral leadership as Yale's Kingman Brewster might have come up with, why not chalk that up to Connecticut's crudity...
...paper. Even the worst clubs always have a couple of speedy quarter-milers, or at least a handful of top-flight jumpers. However, unless Princeton is holding a few runners in storage in that Jadwin Gym of theirs, it looks like Coach Edgar Stowell's Harvard thinclads will chalk up their first dual meet victory of the season today...
McGuire's floating-triangle defense, designed to collapse on Burleson and shut down Thompson and guard Monte Towe man-on-man, soon joined the Warrior control-offense schemes as just so much chalk on the dressing-room blackboard...
...with manuscripts, so with drawings. The Morgan's collection was recently fortified by a bequest from one of the greatest collectors of Italian drawings, Janos Scholz. What the library now offers is of almost unparalleled rarity, beginning with a black chalk study of devils-spiky, nervous and of an almost hallucinatory vigor-by the 15th century Artist Luca Signorelli, proceeding through works by Pontormo, Filippino Lippi, Dürer, Fragonard, Bruegel and Blake...
...stories made the anti-fascist slogans make sense, like Azdak's Solomon-like decision that Grusha keeps the governor's child because she won't try to pull him from a circle in a tug-of-war with the governor's ambitious widow. As a result, The Caucasian Chalk Circle has a traditional, tender, open quality that Brecht rarely allowed himself, and an archetypal quality that makes its hope seem universal, the natural birthright, sold again and again but somehow always recovered, of all the people of a constantly changing world...