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Word: chalks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upon the chalk-lined sward trotted the eleven purple-banded "Huskies" of the University of Washington. They slapped their padded thighs, they pranced their cleated feet. Came the slighter, nimbler Dixie boys of the University of Alabama, flitting through signal practice, twitching their pigskin this way, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Thunder and Lightning | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

...rest, he has put down the adventures which have come to him during that part of his life which he has devoted to recording, with etching needle and lithographic chalk, the industrial life of the U. S. and Europe, all in a sturdy and magnificently printed book, adorned with countless of his own etchings, drawings, lithographs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Pennell's Book | 12/28/1925 | See Source »

...Harvard is the only opponent this year against whom Yale has not scored. . . . When the end finally came, Harvard was still standing under its own goal posts rolling back the Blue storm that pressed seeking victory. But that last white chalk line that marked the difference between triumph and a tie still remained uncrossed. . . . But after all it was a tie game, and neither honor nor dishonor should go to either eleven."--Harry Cross, New York Times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWSPAPER CRITICS UNITE IN PRAISING FIGHTING SPIRIT SHOWN BY HARVARD MEN | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

Yale will attempt to chalk up its twenty 2'th victory at the expense of the Bruins this afternoon. The teams have met 29 times, Brown winning three games, while two resulted in ties. The Elis have won all the games since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELI BULLDOG GRAPPLES WITH BEAR, TIGER ANTICIPATES CLOSE SHAVE FROM COLGATE | 10/24/1925 | See Source »

...longer were the courts of the West Side Club the scene of a populous and pretty carnival. Combat had narrowed, grown bitter. Miss Wills played Miss Goss. The latter skimmed the net-cord with her strokes, whisked them to send up spirals of chalk from the baseline, won the first set 6-3. Prickly heat began to affect the vertebrae of the spectators. Was a champion going down? Miss Wills, smiling her poker smile, won a love set, ran through six of the next eight games, tucked the match in her vanity case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Women's Tennis | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

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