Word: chalkboards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...television cameras whirred and photographers snapped away last week, a clerk at the Paris currency exchange wrote the historic numbers on the chalkboard next to the words United States: 10.0230. In Milan, another clerk scribbled in the new price for the dollar: 2003.40 lire. The U.S. dollar, which only five years ago was the world's weakest major currency, had just passed two important milestones: 10 francs and 2,000 lire to the dollar. In New York, London, Paris, Tokyo and almost everywhere else that currencies are traded, investors and speculators were betting on the dollar with an enthusiasm that...
...from the offensive line, two All-Ivy selections are gone, leaving a huge hole on the Bruin chalkboard and some big spots to fill...
...Reagan folks in general-Defense czar Casper W. Weinberger '38 in particular-have a new vision of political systems that is sending government watchers scurrying back to the chalkboard. This time, however, not even trapezoids will do the trick...
...addition, there were some peculiarities which only the most devoted council members was able to appreciate. The council's office, burred in the basement of Canday Hall, was maintained by a scrupulous office manager, Stan S. Butler. The chalkboard was always washed, and notices on the bulletin board were always squarely lined up and pinned with four tacks each. Butler also apparently labelled everything "OFFICE COPY." Including one participant recalls, a single matchbook deep in a musty file drawer...
...decoyed by it. Even in getting up, we expect breakfast. Then there is Monday . .. and Saturday ... and Christmas ... There is a continual tiny date with activity. Or-if we are left in a pool of silence-let's cut our nails." With the grace of wit and no chalkboard sermonizing, Enid Bagnold tells us to stop cutting our nails and gaze into the silent pool of revelation. - By T.E. Kalem