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Word: chalke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Ingalls the only Varsity twirler to chalk up a victory this season and with league games scheduled Friday and Saturday against Cornell and Dartmouth, Mitchell is making every effort to uncover a possible winner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY FACES BROWN WITH SHEAN ON MOUND | 5/11/1937 | See Source »

Coach Fred Mitchell's ace hurler, Ed Ingalls, kept the opposition's 13 hits well scattered with the exception of the disastrous fourth inning, when St. John's capitalized on four solid blows and two errors to chalk up six runs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARKNESS HALTS TIE GAME WITH ST. JOHN'S | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...Schwab laughed. But loyal President Eugene Grace grew white as chalk. Eyes flashing, fist clenched, he said quietly: "Mr. Schwab has not outlived his usefulness to this corporation. His retirement would be a grave mistake." He stalked menacingly toward Stockholders Gilbert & Coshland, was restrained from snoot-punching by fellow officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Personnel: Apr. 26, 1937 | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

During the Chalk Age (60 to 150 million years ago) the air must have swarmed with all kinds of insects-but for some mysterious reason fossil evidence of Chalk Age bugs is rare almost to the point of nonexistence. Smithsonian Institution scientists were therefore delighted to receive last week two rare wing-prints lately found in 100,000,000-year-old Colorado sandstone, one of a giant leaf hopper, the other of something like a modern squash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rare Old Bugs | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...Nevada the State Legislature ratified the proposed Child Labor Amendment to the Constitution and Franklin Roosevelt, biggest booster of that Amendment, was pleased to chalk up the 26th endorsement, leaving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Roosevelt Week: Feb. 8, 1937 | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

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