Word: chalks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early 1920s, when he was teaching other young sprouts at Den Helder, his favorite lecture was on the coming war between the U.S. and Japan. "When?" his students would ask him, and he would boom: "In this generation." Then he would stride to a blackboard map and chalk three Xs- on Pearl Harbor, the Panama Canal, San Francisco. "There," he would say, "the attacks will fall...
Coach John Chase's Yardling hockey team has feasted on a fat diet of prep school teams to chalk up its seven straight wins, but this afternoon at 5:30 o'clock at the Boston. Skating Club they may find a more indigestible morsel when they meet their first college rival, the undefeated Princeton Freshman sextet...
Coach Al McCoy's Yardling basketeers fell to their second opponent of the season Saturday afternoon when the Andover quintet withstood a fourth period Crimson rally to chalk up a 51 to 41 victory. Jim Duden dropped shots from every conceivable angle to account for 21 Phillipian points...
...conference may raise the curtain. Pressure, exerted not directly by the United States, but by the community of Pan American nations, could turn the tide for some pro-Ally pronunciamento. If it does, Sumner Welles, the United States, and the cause of the democracies can each chalk up a victory...
...Dick Harlow's fears for tomorrow are neatly summarized in a terse warning printed in red chalk inside the players' dressing room at Dillon Field House. There, right beside the door, one of the managers has writ- ten "Remember--in 1939 and Harvard was favored 4 to 1. Yale won both!" The word Yale is underlined three times in blue crayon...