Word: chalks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philippine school buildings survived the years of war (and the best of those that were left had been taken over for hospitals and by the Army). Some classrooms had neither desks nor chairs. Few pencils, little paper and no chalk was to be had. The books that remained were encrusted with the pastemarks of Japanese censors. This was the Filipino education picture last week, as tens of thousands of children went back to school for the first time since the Jap occupation...
Long-distance German guns were indeed almost ready to rain ten V-3 rocket shells a minute on the British capital. At Mimoyecques, near Calais (95 miles from London), Allied troops found 50 smoothbore gun barrels, each 400 feet long, sunk 350 feet into chalk hills. The installation was partly protected by 18-ft. concrete roofs, impervious to bombs. But steady air attack had slowed the Todt Organization's construction of the site until it was too late. Also found were seven other elaborate installations on the French coast. At least one was for another secret weapon, still...
...second in a row, Jack Wallace, ace Crimson hurler, blanked a visiting nine Wednesday, as his teammates' bats pushed across enough runs to come out on top. While the strong armed right-hander whitewashed Northeastern with four hits Coach Floyd Stahl's Varsity banged out eight hits to chalk...
...Forte on third by virtue of a passed ball, John Coppinger walked and stole second, but the inning ended as Allen rolled out. It was not until the ninth inning with the score already 15 to 2, that Harvard combined two singles and a walk to chalk up its third and last...
Necessity was the mother of his gridiron inventiveness. Because Tech's academic standards were high, his squads correspondingly small, onetime Mathematics Professor William Anderson Alexander devised an intricate type of play that few but his apt engineers could have mastered. Ruddy-faced Coach Alex carried his chalk and blackboard to the half-time dressing rooms, substituted diagraming for tear-jerking pep talks. He said rousing up the boys produced mental instability...