Word: blackboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tiring stationary line scrimmage and half an hour of running signals featured yesterday's workout for the varsity football team. Coach Casey also gave his team a long blackboard talk and a couple of new plays to work...
...boasted a vast T-shaped bar at which beer was dispensed from the transepts, mixed drinks along the nave. Like every other hotelman, Sam Shaw was bothered by the problem of washroom literature. He solved the problem by putting up in the men's lavatory an enormous blackboard, bisected by a white line. One side was headed POETRY the other PROSE. There was plenty of chalk for the suddenly inspired, an eraser for the censorious. In 1914 the city bought the Grand Union and tore it down in the course of subway construction. Since then Sam Shaw has lived...
Coach P. S. deQ. Cabot 1G has devoted most of the time thus far to instructing new men in the fundamentals of the game. This afternoon at 3.30 o'clock he will give a blackboard lecture in the Dillon Field House on technical points of rugby. Meetings will be held shortly in the respective houses to form teams...
...Writers on the Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune used to chalk up on a blackboard each silly question that one staff member asked another. High man for the week was supposed to stand his contemporaries a drink or drinks. No living man ever scored highest, however...
...August afternoon in 1870, in St. Clement's College at Metz, a serious dark-eyed boy was taking examinations for the Ecole Polytechnique, government military school at Paris. The professor of French composition, trembling with emotion, scrawled on the blackboard: "Develop this thought of Kléber's:? 'It is essential that the young train their faculties.' " Through the open window Student Ferdinand Foch heard the distant booming of Prussian cannon. He never forgot that afternoon...