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Word: chalks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Awful Condition. Thereafter, until his death in 1907, Wilfred Meynell and his poetess-wife Alice took care of Francis Thompson. They sent him to a hospital, then to the monastery at Storrington in Sussex-a country of Roman roads, rolling fields, abandoned chalk mines, rooks and sheep. Later, at the Franciscan monastery at Pantasaph in Wales, where he spent three years Thompson was forbidden money, even for postage stamps, lest he spend it for drugs He walked through the hills, wrapped in an ulster that extended from his neck to his ankles-"gentle, humble and good anc very conscious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Minor Poet | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

Prof. Neff--Be practical and follow the colored chalk diagrams carefully...

Author: By Pearson Twins, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 11/21/1944 | See Source »

Franklin Roosevelt stuffed another cigaret in his long ivory holder. The White House reporters asked: ". . . Anything you can tell us in the way of background on why it was necessary to call General Stilwell home?" The President flicked ashes from his chalk-striped suit, answered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Crisis | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

...science. Head of this low-cost educational project-an extension of both Los Angeles University's College of Psychiatry and Golden State University of Los Angeles-was curly-haired, thoughtful-looking, 24-year-old, self-styled "Vice Dean" George William Manus. His sideburns and the drape of his chalk-stripe suit were sharp. So were his departments: practical and applied psychology, chemical psychotherapy, hypnotic childbirth, advanced esoterics and metaphysics, and reflex therapy (dandy for baldness). Students of "prenatal suggestion" were advised: "When a couple decides to have children, they should go to a mountain resort where they can romp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sharp Sheepskins | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

...that chalk down. The Iroquois was indeed a double-stacker, but one stack was sacked when it became the Solace, because the Navy liked it that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 21, 1944 | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

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