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...England, a saucer-shaped depression in chalk cliffs of the Medway Valley was found to contain relics, thought to date from mid-Pleistocene times (50,000 years ago). The relics: a "workshop," with 4,000 tools in 17 heaps-hand axes of flint flakes, hammerstones of quartz, corepieces and nodules of flint...
...exhibition, one gets a glimpse of a chalk-faced friend from the Folies Bergeres with gross, pursy mouth and smudged eyes; apaches that glare and glide in the galvanic paint as if rehearsing for a cinema; a group posed, with the sterile absurdity of wax figures, about a table; a bristling gendarme, unable to decide whether to arrest a reveller or have a drink with him; a deputy compounded of a too-small black hat and too many brown whiskers; a lady with a green shadow upon her face...
...year-old defendant to testify. She was not put into the prisoner's dock, but sat on a special seat in the centre of the court room. She stood up, a slim, neat figure dressed in black from hat to shoes, her delicate, pretty, pale face appearing as fine chalk contrasted with charcoal. Under a searching cross-examination in a sympathetically inclined court where men and women sat silent with tears streaming from their eyes, she told her story: She and the young author fell in love, became engaged. The future threw wide its arms to receive them in happiness...
...Tarlac, Philippine Islands, one Colonel Wolfson visited a high school, was invited to examine the pupils. Said he: "I will give a peso (50 cents) to any one who can memorize my full name in 15 minutes." He then took chalk, wrote on the blackboard: Josephus Adolphus Americus Vespucius Leonidus Wol-sicanius Alexandricus Naptalicus Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Wolfson, read amazement on the students' faces, left the room. In 15 minutes, he returned, collected papers. Out of 33 who tried, 23 had memorized his name perfectly...
...division a close contest quickly developed between Harvard's representatives, Robert E. Sherwood and Heywood Broun, authors and critics, and Yale's stalwarts, Stephen Vincent Benet, famous author, and John Thomas, Armed with chalk, each contestant faced a blackboard, waving a paper of definitions in one hand and writing vigorously with the other. For a time it was anybody's match but Benet and Thomas spurted toward the end and won by several words in record breaking time...