Word: blackboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly all of H. G. Wells's books, Brynhild or The Show of Things also encouraged Wellsians by its age-belying vigor. The story of a clever man's disintegration and an honest woman's fulfillment, it is also a Wellsian fable, told without his usual blackboard charts and magic-lantern slides, of the human search for reality...
...caterers last week '"Boston" Strause, aided by six assistants and a blackboard, demonstrated a method of making fresh apple pie by draining off the apple juice and sugar through a colander and pouring it back into the pie through holes in the crust while baking. He did not demonstrate his fresh strawberry pie, which he says "has never been revealed to the housewife." Recipe: use frozen fresh strawberries, freeze again immediately after cooking. The strawberries remain whole...
...January it had sold the New London School Board a natural gas mixed with a tell-tale odorant that might have prevented the blast. But the most ironic product of the tragedy was right on top of the wreckage. Blown out of the ruined building was a section of blackboard on which someone had scrawled: "Oil and natural gas are East Texas' greatest mineral blessings. Without them this school would not be here, and none of us would be here learning our lessons...
Last week a stumbling block was placed in the National Committee's way when Attorney General Cummings warned that its blackboard users might be prosecuted for violating a Federal law. The law, an obscure one passed in 1918, states that anyone may be fined $1,000 and imprisoned for one year, if, in making a sale or lease, he ascribes any part of the price to a Federal tax. The Attorney General, who said his warning had been provoked by about a dozen complaints from the Midwest against Republican tax propaganda, had never heard of anyone being prosecuted under...
...years, retold the old story of Julius Caesar, his rise and fall. Though her version lacked the imaginative freshness of such historical novels as Robert Graves's on the Emperor Claudius or Lion Feuchtwanger's on Josephus, and neither added to nor subtracted from history's blackboard, it furnished modern readers with a stirring, up-to-date account of one of Rome's greatest true stories. Author Bentley also hoped that her factual record of ancient autocracy would point a moral for the present...