Word: chalks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three big blackboards were set up in the living room. As the sun sank returns began coming in. The Hoover secretaries darted hither and yon with slips of paper, chalk and chalk-erasers, like marker boys in a brokerage office. Mr. Hoover worked with them for a while, then sat in the front row of chairs, smoking a pipe. The buzzing crush of people seemed to bother him. He went into his study. Telephone calls were incessant. He discouraged premature congratulations, wandering between living room and study...
...eleven. In eight plays with Batchelder and A. W. Huguley '31 doing most of the carrying, the ball was put over for the second and last score of the afternoon. Huguley made the touchdown on a line buck from the four yard line. Putnam's kick again failed to chalk up the extra point...
Most makers claim a base of rice for their powders. But many a woman hides a red nose with much the same chalk dust that her grandmother used. Her grandmother went to the drugstore, bought chalk drops and crushed them herself. Now she could choose between a multiplicity of powders, scented, exotically labeled, but not far different from the - chalk-drops...
...much concerned with the issue of rice or chalk. It concentrates upon chemical, synthetic dyes. Lemon creams, smelling of tropical fruit groves but actually scented and colored with dangerous chemicals, are hateful to the Federal Trade Commission...
...must be gives "cause and will and strength and means to don't," even if he never attains the intellectual precocity of the English student. He must have time, as well as incentive, to study alone. A single self-won thought will proclaim itself within him worth all the chalk talks of all the classrooms...