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Word: chalks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gladys Swarthout, young and comely Kansas City mezzo-soprano, donned drab grey for her Metropolitan debut, smeared her face with ash-colored chalk, sang the role of the blind mother in La Gioconda. Her acting, typically operatic, was credible. Her voice, though sometimes unsteady, was agreeable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Indianapolis Dancer | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Hanover, New Hampshire, Oct. 21-- The Dartmouth football team held a strenuous scrimmage this afternoon in preparation for the approaching game with Harvard. The first eleven, plus Ping Ferry, Aarne Frigard, Ted Wolf, and Charlie Nims were excused from practice after lengthy chalk talk by Coach Jackson Cannell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREEN HOLDS HARD SCRIMMAGE | 10/22/1929 | See Source »

Harvard's chances for a successful season brightened considerably yesterday when the University eleven swung into action against the seconds and in a grueling two-hour scrimmage completely crushed Coach Knox's charges, rolling up 78 points while the seconds managed to chalk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST ELEVEN RUNS THROUGH SCRUBS IN LONG SCRIMMAGE | 9/28/1929 | See Source »

...device to take the place of the timeworn chalk and blackboard or checkerboard for use in football skull practice has been developed by Mr. N. W. Fradd, Director of Hemenway Gymnasium and instructor in Physical Education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRADD DEVISES, CHALK AND BLACKBOARD NOW OF PAST | 9/28/1929 | See Source »

...rain descended the second day. Mrs. Watson took Little Helen Jacobs out to the centre court and gave her a baseline trimming. 6?3, 6?2. Mrs. Mitchell took Edith Cross out and almost gave her a trimming but Miss Cross finally found the chalk-lines and won, 6?3, 3?6, 6?3. Mrs. B. C. Covell and Mrs. Dorothy Shepherd-Barron, runners-up at Wimbledon, continued the visitors' lessons in doubles play for Little Helen's benefit. The latter's partner, Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman. 25 times a champion, needed no such instruction, but the final score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wightman Cup | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

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