Word: chalkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speaking at the University of Oklahoma, Wayne Coy, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, had said: "When a comedian gets so big that his network can no longer handle him. then we have a case of the tail wagging the dog. The boy who used to express himself with chalk on a wall is now provided with a television screen . . . This type of comedian is stilt peddling livery stable humor...
Sandwiching his dramatic statements between barrages of involved medical descriptions--which included chalk drawings and ten minutes of Kodachrome slides--Ford testified...
...playwright, Eliot is still a little dazed by the footlights. He resorts to chalk and blackboard to work out his plots. Says he: "My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up & down." (The Cocktail Party is his first play to be produced on a large commercial scale. His only other full-length play, apart from Murder in the Cathedral: The Family Reunion, the story of a modern Orestes haunted by the Furies...
Also in the "B" League, Adams took advantage of a porous Lowell defense to chalk up a close victory over the Bellboys...
...something to the square. From time to time it refers to tables of figures imbedded in its memory, selects the proper figure and includes it in its calculations. It remembers intermediate figures for a fraction of a second, uses them when needed, and then rubs them out like chalk marks on a blackboard. It does all these things and more, without mistakes, faster than a human being can jot down a single figure. When the machine is through with one calculation, it rattles out the answer on an electric typewriter and starts the next job in a flash...