Word: chalks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expected to do their jobs well, and the tasks they have to handle are just as important in football as that of the pass-catching end. In wrestling, however, one man is asked to go out and try to keep away from his opponent so that a coach may chalk up another victory for the team...
...reads Paragraph 1,807 of U. S. Public Law No. 361, the Tariff Act of 1930. Its legalistic loophole: the word "original." Last week it appeared that Manhattan customs officials had squeezed certain of the grey-and-chalk Paris street scenes of Maurice Utrillo through the loophole, ruling that they were copies of postcards, therefore commercial rather than original art, therefore dutiable at 15% of the price they fetched in France. Duty was applied specifically on one importation of Manhattan's Perls (pronounced perils) Galleries, Rue Saint-Vincent a Montmartre; and on a score imported by the Valentine Galleries...
With a rearranged lineup, the wrestling team will swing into action against the Brown grapplers tomorrow at Providence to try to chalk up their second win of the year. In the past two matches, the team has defeated Tufts with a complete sweep, and has lost by one point to a more experienced Princeton team...
...with 222 winners; jolly pink-faced Jockey Adams, last year's champion, close behind with 208. Both were racing at the Tanforan track outside San Francisco, riding six or seven mounts a day, and flying down to Mexico for Sunday racing at Agua Caliente in their attempt to chalk up the most winners by December...
Climaxing a bitter uphill fight by the inimitable Charley Lutz, Sam White got the bucket that put the Feslermen into a 26 to 25 lead with the clock showing only five minutes to play. After this they were never headed and went merrily on their way to chalk up a well-earned triumph...