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Down the alley now the pins looked hazy. Bowler McGeorge felt a little sick at his stomach. His palms sweated so that he had to dry them. He dabbed his fingers with chalk, got a grip of sorts on himself, picked up the ball, sighted down the maple strip, and let fly. It was his only erratic shot. There was a gasp as it crossed over, broke toward the Brooklyn (left) side. But on the left side is the 1-2 pocket, which bowlers sometimes call Last Chance Gulch, and right in there Bowler McGeorge's last straying hook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Without a Miss | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

Some years ago, Dorothy Canfield, in her nonliterary self (Mrs. John Redwood Fisher), served on Vermont's State Board of Education, found that small village schools were so hard up for chalk, books, blackboards, maps, to say nothing of gymnasiums and decently paid teachers, that they would gladly pawn even their academic freedom for a little ready cash. This, at any rate, is the premise of Seasoned Timber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Canfield a la Mode | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...expected to do their jobs well, and the tasks they have to handle are just as important in football as that of the pass-catching end. In wrestling, however, one man is asked to go out and try to keep away from his opponent so that a coach may chalk up another victory for the team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT'S HIS NUMBER? | 2/21/1939 | See Source »

...reads Paragraph 1,807 of U. S. Public Law No. 361, the Tariff Act of 1930. Its legalistic loophole: the word "original." Last week it appeared that Manhattan customs officials had squeezed certain of the grey-and-chalk Paris street scenes of Maurice Utrillo through the loophole, ruling that they were copies of postcards, therefore commercial rather than original art, therefore dutiable at 15% of the price they fetched in France. Duty was applied specifically on one importation of Manhattan's Perls (pronounced perils) Galleries, Rue Saint-Vincent a Montmartre; and on a score imported by the Valentine Galleries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Utrillo's Duty | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

With a rearranged lineup, the wrestling team will swing into action against the Brown grapplers tomorrow at Providence to try to chalk up their second win of the year. In the past two matches, the team has defeated Tufts with a complete sweep, and has lost by one point to a more experienced Princeton team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestling Team Faces Brown With Many Changed Weights | 2/3/1939 | See Source »

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