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Word: chalke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other aspect of British foreign policy. The best Major Atlee and 40 Labor M.P.s could do was to sign a protest against the German Government's execution of a German Communist last week in Hamburg, and thus arouse individual British Labor sympathizers to chalk London Streets last week with anti-Nazi slogans and hurl bricks through the windows of new German Ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop. Brick-throwing Laborite Miss Ruth Ellen Gastar screamed in police court: "The people of the British Government wine and dine with Ribbentrop, but the British people do not want these Nazi murderers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Nov. 16, 1936 | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

Arizona. Huge, beaked reptiles gliding on batlike wings, the pterosaurs reached their greatest size in the Chalk Age (60-130 million years ago), achieved wingspreads up to 30 feet. These hollow-boned hobgoblins weighed no more than a Thanksgiving turkey. In the older Jurassic period (130-170 million years ago) they were generally much smaller than in the Chalk Age. Digging into a desert mountain slope which once was seabottom, Dr. T. A. Stoyanow, University of Arizona geologist, laid bare a Jurassic pterosaur skeleton with a wingspread of some 28 feet, biggest specimen of that period ever found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...evening every up-to-date newspaper in the land has made arrangements to serve their readers in some fashion as that which the CRIMSON will employ. Some only use green lights, some use red lights, some employ the swinging counter-clockwise, north-and-south motion, while others simply use chalk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Election Returns to Be Flashed From Bell-Tower of Old Appleton Chapel in Revolutionary Fashion | 11/3/1936 | See Source »

Paced by Tony McGowan who broke 80 twice, the Crimson linksmen scored two Eastern Intercollegiate league victories this weekend when they nosed out the Brown golfers 6-4 Saturday morning and outdrove the Holy Cross team in the afternoon to chalk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Minor Sports | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...members, of whom 15,000 made the trip to Indianapolis. The tournament, No. 1 event of the year for U. S. bowlers, costs $200,000, of which half is distributed to contestants as prizes. The rest goes for 32 brand-new alleys with colored gutters and chromium chalk-trays, 30,000 brand-new pins, later sold to the highest bidder, salaries to 200 pin-boys and scorekeepers. After five weeks of record attendance, the Congress last week was preparing to adjourn. Doings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A. B. C. Congress | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

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