Word: chalkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rome University Ph.D., a pupil of famed Enrico Fermi, Physicist Pontecorvo fled Italy in the 1930s to escape Mussolini's Hitler-inspired antiSemitism. He spent some time in France and the U.S., finally settled in Canada, where he became a British subject and an important researcher at the Chalk River atomic project. Eventually he made his way to Harwell, where he rose to the post of chief scientific officer. Like many a colleague, he was an associate (in Canada) of Dr. Allan Nunn May, later convicted of passing atomic information to Russian agents; and an associate (in Britain...
Throughout the early hours of the evening, small, masked creatures appeared in doorways carrying the traditional Halloween objects, soap, chalk, and paper bags filled with candy...
...Crimson will have a chance to move up out of last place by beating Dartmouth here in Cambridge this Saturday. Both Brown and Dartmouth are yet to chalk up a league win, but both have a man placing first in individual honors. MacConnell of Brown is the foremost punter, while Dartmouth's Clayton leads in the passing department...
...Jump. Appearances were deceptive. Time & again Patty's deftly placed drop shots outmaneuvered his opponent; his baseline drives were flicking up puffs of chalk. He won the third set, 6-2, kept up the pressure to run out the match in the fourth, 6-3. The new Wimbledon champion did not, however, test his remaining stamina by trying to jump over the net. He put one leg across, nearly pulling down the net, then walked toward the umpire's stand with an arm around Frank Sedgman's neck...
...only thing that seems certain is the fact of rising costs. "Everything," says Amherst's President Charles W. Cole, "has gone up-from chalk to footballs." Indeed, chalk is up 30%, footballs 59%, steel desks 50%. President James Phinney Baxter of Williams has noted: "The frogs used by our biology teachers [have] jumped from 72? to $2.25 a dozen . . ." All in all, the cost of running a campus has soared nearly 70% over what it was ten years...