Word: chalks
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...exercise-seeking students swarmed through the Indoor Athletic Building yesterday to chalk up the highest attendance yet suffered by that edifice, and attempts are now being made to readjust schedules to handle the mobs...
Before the Revolution, icons were still gathering soot in dim church recesses. Many were repainted six or seven times, defaced with plaster, chalk and glue relief. Their artistic worth escaped even most Russians. The few attempts made at restoration were restricted to dubbing in missing hands and faces. One of the Soviet Government's first acts was to set up the National Central Restoration Workshops, which are still busy cleaning off the accumulation of centuries. Occasionally a bearded prophet, scraped off, becomes a sweet-faced Virgin...
...Many Lend-Lease ships which heretofore returned from Britain with Scotch whiskey are now returning with chalk as ballast. Reason: British stocks of Scotch are running low. Consequence: the U.S. supply of Scotch (now sufficient for about six months) will also begin to decline rapidly...
...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...
...Dodds was not invited back to the Garden until three weeks ago. Then, to the amazement of everyone except cagey Jack Ryder, Boston College coach who had been giving him lessons this winter, Mr. Dodds ran so fast he forced Greg Rice to chalk up the second fastest two miles (8:52.8) in the history of foot racing...