Word: blackboard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first games come after two weeks of more or less intensive conditioning. Two hundred-odd candidates for the eight teams have been put through conditioning and signal drills in an attempt to reduce the chances of injuries in the usually ragged games; and each unit has undergone considerable blackboard work...
Nobody knows what kind of magic Valpey has up his sleeve or on the blackboard in Dillon Field House, but already an exceptionally large amount of opening game tickets have been sold to the faithful, loyal, and merely curious for tomorrow's contest...
...much truth the philosophers had amassed was perhaps best revealed by a little man who rose from the back rows and asked permission to speak. After several minutes his learned listeners still understood nothing of his polysyllabic lecture. At length he went to the blackboard and drew a series of complicated equations (which Expert Russell later pronounced nonsense). Then the little man smiled and said softly: "And this, gentlemen, solves the problem of the world...
Then he tripped down from the platform and was never heard of again. What he wrote on the blackboard was erased and nobody had copied it down...
...green corduroy jacket, Mr. Fisher could pitch horseshoes and he could square-dance. But he also knew something about symphonies and poetry. On the walls of the classroom, he hung reproductions of paintings by artists Bunk did not know: Cezanne, Bellini, Rouault, Rousseau, Winslow Homer. And on the blackboard, he wrote things like "The best portion of a good man's life, according to Wordsworth, is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love...