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Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon was marked by hard running, rugged blocking, decisive tackling, and chalk every five yards. All seriousness aside though, those Harvards really went out there and showed "Ox" DaGrosa's Holy Cross "where the geeses goes barefoot...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Crimson Footwork Wins as Knight Fails to Spur on 'Old Gray Mare' | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

Newshawks had been warned that they were going to meet a man in poor health. They met a man as thin, brittle and white as a stick of chalk, who at the age of 58 looked 70. He shuddered with palsy. His face was shrunken tightly against his fine skull. His cheeks drooped wearily below his mouth. It was not until he had walked swiftly, but shakily, towards them and had taken his seat, that newsmen noticed much about him that was still youthful and perhaps more impressive than even before: the graceful, aquiline head; the quality of finality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Ordeal of Eugene O'Neill | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...five minute overtime periods followed but although most of the play was in WPI territory, the Crimson team, by this time thoroughly worn out, could not chalk up the winning goal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Booters Come From Behind To Tie Worcester Tech, 5-5 | 9/28/1946 | See Source »

Returning to Harvard again after the war, Conant kept up his researches in explosives, and in chlorophyll (the "what makes grass green" factor). As a teacher, he developed a good sense of showmanship to go with his ability to talk in chalk. In the course of one lecture, he whipped an egg out of his pocket, dropped it into a substance which he said would solidify the albumen, whipped it out again and heaved it at the wall over his students' heads. They were relieved to find that the professor was right: the egg bounced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Chemist of Ideas | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

Berroeta expected to cross the Channel in eleven hours or less, but after 25 minutes, unable to see Dover's chalk cliffs ahead, he gave it up, promised to try again within ten days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Toiler in the Moat | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

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