Word: blackboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raising of one finger and those advocating the raising of two fingers. There was always considerable suspense among the kids at every change of teachers until that detail was settled. We were never told how many fingers to raise, and the schoolmarm never wrote such instructions on the blackboard in our presence. But after a recess period, or coming to school in the morning we found the instructions written neatly on the blackboard and the teacher very preoccupied with something on her desk...
...Autobahnen are separated by a hedged and grassed parkway 16 feet wide, which keeps traffic separated and cuts down headlight glare. Service stations, hotels, repair shops and rest stations are spaced along the highway with Teutonic regularity (26 miles between filling stations) and at even intervals there is a blackboard to call motorists to the phone for messages from home or summonses to emergency military duty...
...period, question mark or exclamation point is a red light. Suggested classroom game: a punctuation court for trying traffic violators: e.g.: "John Jones, you are charged with the serious offense of passing a period." Another game: a row of pupils, each representing a part of speech, stands before a blackboard holding sheets of white paper over their heads. As a sentence is read, each part of speech jumps, like popping corn. A pupil who fails to pop at the right time goes to stand on the sidelines with an eraser on his head...
...campus, the son of an associate principal of the school. Short, brown-and-silver-haired Flick Hoxton, a great Southern school athlete, got his nickname either from his habit of lying in bed and spitting out the window or from his extraordinary quickness of hand. Standing at the blackboard before his class, he used absentmindedly to place five or six pieces of chalk on the back of his hand, toss them in the air and catch them...
Cartoonist Dahl, provided with a blackboard, will make a few of his famous funny drawings that appear daily as a strip in the Herald. Unfortunately, members of the Red Sox baseball team cannot attend the smoker as was announced earlier in the week...