Word: blackboard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blackboard Labor. He took a job as traveling salesman for a textbook publishing company, and it was then that he got his big idea. In classroom after classroom, he had seen children laboriously copying off spelling drills from the blackboard. From his own experience, he knew that the teacher had probably spent hours thinking up the exercises. W.P. began to wonder whether there might not be a simpler way to carry on the drill...
...course when the Nieman Fellows talk about competition they're not worrying about marks. But just the same the students keep them on their toes. One fellow goes to the blackboard regularly in beginning French, and, of the 11 in Merk's course, six took the hour exam. The mean mark was B minus, and only one received...
...solemnly deciding who should play the 16 major roles of the 300-year-old Passion Play, scheduled to begin its first season in 16 years next May 21. As each part was filled, the town crier-a young man with shoulder-length blond hair-wrote the names on a blackboard for the people...
...varsity football squad tapered off yesterday, limiting practice to dummy scrimmage, punting, and a short blackboard session...
...Varsity got heavy work yesterday in its second day of preparation for Princeton. Offensive and defensive scrimmage, a 20-minute session on the dummies, and half an hour's blackboard drill comprised the schedule...