Word: blackboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Intermountain's beginners, teachers had to use every bit of their ingenuity to make sense of their courses. English teachers cut out carefully labeled pictures of beds, chairs, tables, houses, barns and animals, and pasted them on the walls. Arithmetic teachers played grocery store, tried to relate their blackboard figures to matters their pupils would understand ("We must keep these numbers in a row just like rows of soldiers, or just like horses walking to a water hole"). Counselors pinned up posters that hammered at the homely rules of hygiene...
...playwright, Eliot is still a little dazed by the footlights. He resorts to chalk and blackboard to work out his plots. Says he: "My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up & down." (The Cocktail Party is his first play to be produced on a large commercial scale. His only other full-length play, apart from Murder in the Cathedral: The Family Reunion, the story of a modern Orestes haunted by the Furies...
...time Jadan's name was listed on the black side of the backstage blackboard at the Bolshoi. "When one is in the red, that makes for prestige and profits," he says. "But when one is in the black that means financial as well as police troubles. Those who stay too long in the black disappear." In 1941, Jadan disappeared-but he went west instead of east to Siberia. The Nazis captured the village where Jadan had a summer home; the Jadans and the entire population of the village were shipped to Germany for slave labor...
...square. From time to time it refers to tables of figures imbedded in its memory, selects the proper figure and includes it in its calculations. It remembers intermediate figures for a fraction of a second, uses them when needed, and then rubs them out like chalk marks on a blackboard. It does all these things and more, without mistakes, faster than a human being can jot down a single figure. When the machine is through with one calculation, it rattles out the answer on an electric typewriter and starts the next job in a flash...