Word: chalks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after her death he left Sforza and stopped at Mantua where he saw the elder sister, Isabella, in her own magnificent court. He was 47 she 25, already a brilliant, beautiful Latin aristocrat of the Renaissance. She made him promise to paint her portrait and he did a preliminary chalk drawing, which is now in the Louvre. He moved on to Florence and finally in 1502 into the employ of the "Bloody Borgia," Cesare, to follow for a year in the violent wake of the Borgia's bull bannerols. He got many a letter from Isabella inviting...
...such talk Pilot Gehlbach's answer is blunt and brief: "I'll fly anything, anytime, anywhere, for money, marbles or chalk...
...feet from his (Culbertson's) side of the table." When the uprear had subsided enough for articulate speech to be heard, Mrs. Culbertson revealed that it was her foot that her husband had encountered. A slight hush fell on the combatants, and Ely ordered the steward to draw a chalk line on the floor under the middle of the table "to avoid further trouble." Then Sims enraged Culbertson in the one hundred and thirteenth rubber by protesting that eighteen minutes was a little too long a time to ponder before playing a single card...
Canton, because it is the farthest metropolis on the China coast from Japan and therefore least apt to be attacked, has been loudly, blatantly anti-Japanese. If even Canton is wavering, Japanese diplomacy could chalk up a major victory last week in Nanking, the "Capital of China" which strongly rules Central China, preponderates in the North and makes noises intended to sound like rule in the South...
...history. In raw form its principal use is as a retarder in cement, preventing it from setting too rapidly. It is also in wide industrial demand as a flux in smelting, as ''mineral white" or "terra alba'' in the paper, textile and paint trades. Blackboard chalk is raw, powdered gypsum molded with a binding substance. Pure gypsum is alabaster...