Word: chalke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formal match tomorrow afternoon, the Rifle Club will oppose New Hampshire's marksmen and attempt to chalk up a victory against its last two defeats. The encounter will take place in Memorial Hall at 2 o'clock...
...their energies of motion. But with the change of mass there is a change of energy, and, as the blackboard showed at the end of an hour, the two are precisely equal. When the lecture was over a newshawk scuttled up to the blackboard, seized the piece of chalk which Dr. Einstein had laid down, carried it off proudly as a trophy...
Manitoba. First discovery of a mosasaur skull was made in 1780 by quarrymen near Maestrict, Holland. The fossil started a lawsuit, attained such fame that a French general attacking Maestrict ordered his gunners not to molest the house containing it. Cruising the shallow seas of the Chalk Age (60-100 million years ago), the mosasaurs, though true reptiles, were completely aquatic. Their legs had become flippers. They had formidably toothed mouths which a specially jointed lower jaw enabled them to open very wide. The smallest species was eight feet long, the largest more than 40. The big ones could swallow...
Next day and for three days thereafter there was peace. The Embarcadero became a No-Man's-Land for strikers. All the steel doors of the docks were flung wide; the Belt Line moved 203 cars; trucks ran back & forth with impunity. Only weapons used by the strikers were chalk and flowers. On the pavement where Sperry and Bordloise had fallen strikers chalked "POLICE MURDER. 2 I. L. A. MEN KILLED, SHOT IN THE BACK" and around the inscription they laid roses and wreaths. A few doors away at the headquarters of the International Longshoremen's Association the bodies...
...turning his brick into the treasury at $20.67 Per ounce. Eggs, butter, lard and other farm products have long had speculators to assume future risks. Largest butter & egg market is in Chicago but handy for Wall Streeters is the second largest-Manhattan's old Mercantile Exchange, where chalk marks on the butter board have made many a fortune and where some 450 brokers trade eggs as "Fresh Gathered Firsts," "White Standards," "Dirties." Unit of futures trading is a carload lot-300 tubs of butter, about 19,200 lb.; 400 cases of eggs of 30 dozen each. Margin requirement...