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Word: chalkings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain. (After Du Pont and I.C.I. came under antitrust fire in 1944, most of their deals were dropped, others canceled after they were finally convicted in 1951.) By its own admission, I.C.I, now controls almost 100% of British alkali production, has a monopoly in nylon polymer and Nitro-Chalk, produces 60% of all British dyestuffs, and 90% of its chlorine. The critics argue that I.C.I, is too big to be good, can produce or not produce at will, fix prices arbitrarily, that high profits and managerial hardening of the arteries will eventually slow down research and the development of vital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: New Empires for Imperial | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...were flocking to have their works set up on Mr. Wilson's presses, Harvard was burgeoning under the amiable dictatorship of President Eliot. By 1872, the revolutionary elective system had so widened the scope and number of course that an unseen difficulty arose. It was no longer possible to chalk up examinations on the blackboard, and nothing but printed exams seemed ractical. So, in that year, Eliot bought himself a press and the services of a second-rate journeyman printer, installing them both in a nook of University Hall's basement. All was well, for a while, and Harvard...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: University Press Maintains 40-Year Standards Despite Confusion With Poster, Exam Printers | 2/3/1954 | See Source »

...many times that he has become the Johnny Appleseed of the museum world. He has badgered millionaires, begged and borrowed exhibits, set up children's museums from Portland. Ore. to Jacksonville. Fla. Last week, as visitors streamed into his new museum in San Jose, Calif., Forbes could chalk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mr. Appleseed | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

...Thanks to Citizen H. S. Truman you can chalk up ... Joe McCarthy. LEWIS T. APPLE Clayton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 14, 1953 | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

Next day, dressed in a chalk-striped grey suit, the Kabaka of Uganda sat in the gallery of the House of Commons and heard British democracy wrestle with its conscience (see below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: King In Exile | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

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