Word: chalke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steamer Terukuni Maru went down in 45 minutes off Harwich, near the grave of the Dutch Simon Bolivar, last fortnight's most tragic victim (85 dead). No lives were lost on Terukuni Maru nor on the Italian Fianona of 6,660 tons, which was blown open under the chalk cliffs of Dover but, with tugs, made the beach. The modern British destroyer Gipsy, after rescuing and landing three Nazi airmen who had flown over London's outskirts and abandoned their shot-up plane at sea in a rubber boat, was returning to her patrol off Harwich when...
...answer to the artillery fire from Indian Kast, who was on the passing end of two touchdowns, the Crimson finally clicked in the third period as Whittier carried the mail on the first tally. Soon after McNicol fired a pass to Loring to chalk up another score...
...breathers, Bates and Chicago, failed to lift the lid from the football stew at Cambridge. But the twice victorious Quaker bruisers have already indicated a capacity to solve the Crimson mystery. They're big, they're seasoned, and they're determined to chalk up their second victory, away from home, in ten years...
...world's most renowned regatta is the English yachting festival known as Cowes Week. Held on the Solent, between the chalk cliffs of the Isle of Wight and the wooded southern shore of the mainland, Cowes is to yachting what Wimbledon is to tennis, what Ascot is to horse racing, what Hurlingham is to polo, what Lord's is to cricket...
...President used a routine question about TVA as an opportunity to take newsmen up the mountain. He pointed out that "a company," obviously meaning Washington Water Power, in Grand Coulee and Bonneville territory had just sold an issue at "pretty good terms," thus inviting White House reporters to chalk one up for his contention that operating companies with good capital structures (a pat for Washington Water Power) whose "managers" indulge in no soapboxing (a pat for Groesbeck) can count on all the "investor confidence" they need...