Word: blackboard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Institute's director, Oppie still intends to find time to teach and learn. His predecessor's Oxford prints are gone from the director's office; in their place is a wall-length blackboard, covered with equations. And three afternoons a week, out in the new wing, Oppie and 15 young friends can be found talking over elementary-particle physics, explaining things to each other...
They also found themselves imitating their master's mannerisms. They scribbled furiously on the nearest blackboard, talked in soft, deep tones, combed agitated fingers through tousled hair, grunted an excited "Ja, Ja" or a nervous "Hunh, Hunh." They learned to careen along with a perpetual, preoccupied stoop; some even took up chain-smoking and blue shirts...
Chalked up on the blackboard outside the Varsity locker room after Saturday's 20-18 victory over Holy Cross was the following score: "Princeton 55, Virginia 14." Art Valpey's players had a good chance to look at it as they trooped into the showers after the game...
...foreign policy required leadership. It was achieved by men-Republicans as well as Democrats-who were willing to fight for principles before these principles became obvious to everyone. It was not achieved by the people who copied the answers down neatly after the teacher had written them; on the blackboard...
...Blackboard Scholars. The resulting speech was Truman's best since his acceptance speech in Philadelphia. For the first time, Truman plunged boldly into foreign policy. Said he: "Unity . . . cannot be produced by mealy-mouthed political speeches. Unity on great issues comes only when the voice of the people has been heard so clearly, so strongly, so unmistakably that no one . . . can doubt what the people mean . . . We did not have unity in foreign policy in 1940 . . . The Republican leaders were mainly isolationists...