Word: chalks
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When a child surpasses in arithmetic, his name goes on the blackboard in colored chalk. One day last week, five names were on the board and, explained Mrs. McKenney, "Connie's name should also be in color, but yellow is the only color left and she detests yellow." The school's prized science exhibit is a pickled bat; its biologically educational mascot is a live monkey...
...Helena Rubinstein could clearly recall her first impression upon landing in New York in 1914. "It was a cold day," she would say in speech still heavily accented from her Polish girlhood. "All the American women had purple noses and grey lips, and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the U.S. could be my life's work...
...action along, and the film's exuberance and good humor make even Eisenstein's most transparent gimmicks enjoyable--such as the Teutonic knights who jog on unseen mechanical horses. Their full-scale charge across the frozen River Neva was filmed in midsummer on a meadow covered with powdered chalk...
...indomitable Crimson runners, also unbeaten on the season, will destroy the Bulldog and Bengal squads in New Haven this afternoon and chalk up their fourth straight indoor Big Three title. Their inferior rivals have the individual stars to give scattered excitement to this afternoon's contest, but Bill McCurdy's charges have a balance unmatched anywhere else in the Ivy League...
...everybody is always dreaming up ways to spend money. Some people want us to buy good chalk for the blackboards; some want us to buy more than one copy of frequently used books for the math library. And, would you believe it, one boy once asked me why we sell the mimeographed lecture notes. He thought students should get them free. Rank socialism! Besides, with the high salaries we pay our teaching fellows, we can't afford anything...