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Word: chalks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English Channel grew smooth. Mr. Temme swallowed chocolate, tea, coffee, lemonade. A "giant" dogfish waggled itself alongside Mr. Temme in friendly fashion. Mr. Temme trudgeoned on, reaching Lydden Spout, under the Dover chalk cliffs, in 14 hr. 29 min.-two minutes less than Miss Ederle had taken; but three hours, 24 minutes longer than George Michel, the plump, record-holding French baker. Thomas W. Burgess, bronzed Nestor of English natation, and second- man to swim the Channel (in 1911), clapped his pupil heartily on a greasy shoulder. Evelyn Pettipiere, Mr. Temme's fiancee, rushed forward for a wet embrace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Frog v. Eagle | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

...museum case which must be moth-proof and worm-proof; tents for a camp; lenses from Germany for a powerful telescope; a carefully-planned outfit for a South African expedition; a cushion for an instructor's office chair; fresh bottled-water for a thirsty professor; red and yellow chalk for the blackboards so plain that the students at the back of the room can see it; steel furniture for an anti-toxin laboratory; beakers, flasks, and evaporating dishes; 25 cases of books for the Sanskrit Department, printed in London and to be passed through the Custom House as nearly free...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MISCELLANY OF ITEMS PASS THROUGH PURCHASING AGENTS OF UNIVERSITY | 5/27/1927 | See Source »

...Print Room of the Fogg Museum. The reproductions are from the New York dealer, E. Weyhe, and will be for sale to members of the University until March 4. The mention of Old Master drawings usually calls to mind many academic heads, many chubby putti, many nudes in red chalk, all manifesting the years of devoted study passed in repeating the forms of the schools for the purpose of creating pretentious paintings which can be classified as being in the style of this or that master. This is a tradition left from the time when the term "Italian School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OLD REPRODUCTIONS ON VIEW | 3/1/1927 | See Source »

They were problems in the multiplication and division of compound fractions. "Find 83 1/3% of 460." Clackety clackety-clackety-clack, went chalk in the fingers of a shrewd urchin. Clack-ety-clack-et . . , but before the blushing adult competitor had finished his third tier of multiplication, the urchin stood triumphantly at ease. It was quicker when you recognized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Denver | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

...thrusts that turned the tide for good. Holabird threw to Kline for 30 yards, and Kline passed to Scott for 22 more. Again the Elis had risen to dash Harvard from the pinnacle. But this time the defense stiffened, and Wadsworth came in to stand on the 30-yard chalk and whirl over the placement kick that spelled victory for the Blue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON DEFENSE FAILS AS YALE CAPITALIZES BREAKS | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

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