Word: blackboard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Picture-of-the-Week: "The Life of Jack London". . . Famous last words: "Gee, honey, I thought you knew I was married" . . . Row K avows Rube Goldberg had been at the blackboard in R.E. the other day--he ran out of pink chalk, however. . . Lowbrow Essay: Snow is little hunks of white stuff, which when warmed...
...Illinois Coach Ray Elliot took a gander at his squad, wrote on the blackboard: "Illinois . . . Played...
...problems (TIME, July 5). His aureole of white hair droops in summer's heat, a string upholds his cheap blue denim pants. Says he: "Here we cook with water." Interpreted a colleague: "We perform no miracles." A current item of Einsteiniana titillating the Institute: on one of his blackboards bearing a brain-taxing mathematical equation, the charwoman found the word "Erase." On another blackboard, marked "Do not erase," was blazoned the formula...
Professor Kelley, after drawing a complicated graph on a blackboard: "If you gentlemen don't see the logic of that immediately, I won't be surprised." Murmurs Dan Riordan after class, confronted with an "O, give curve suddenly: O, give me a home on the range...
...suppose we all noticed the Baker blackboard which said. "Mr. Hemingway please see Mrs. Fitzhugh after class," which reminds us of Professor Ebersole's favorite remark. "What did you do today that you didn't do yesterday? . . . Well, do it again...