Word: blackboarding
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...discover it unless they were weighing electrons, and the Harvard computer is due to be corrected shortly. What, in plain language, is the matter? "I could explain the whole problem to you," said an assistant manager at the business school, "but it would take several hours and a blackboard." Thanks anyway...
...words tumble out in a rush, full of hard advice in terms of "bucks" and hours, and mixed with engineering jokes about explosions and electrocutions. "That's a good way to get yourself blown up," Horowitz says as he modifies a circuit plan on the blackboard. His students, who had to fight their way into the course, laugh briefly but quickly return to their slouches and listen carefully, sifting through the secrets about studying stars, building stereos, and what Horowitz might have found on an apple skin the other...
...offshore oil deposits have been discovered in such economically eroded countries as Italy and Britain. Researchers have just discovered a new subatomic particle. True, the explorers are not certain about what they have found; pure science seldom knows until years later. But then, who would have dreamed that blackboard physics of 70 years ago would ultimately lead to nuclear power...
...professors - Myrdal at the City College of New York and Von Hayek at Salzburg University. Both men achieved early recognition, as the academy noted, "for their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations." And both gained their widest audiences by going beyond the economist's blackboard model building to produce analyses of modern society through a broad and erudite multidisciplinary approach...
Even Griffith, who spent many years as a Brooklyn teacher, once placed a sign above his blackboard admonishing: "There's no joy in Jersey." But Griffith takes no pride in having helped put the kibosh on the dialect. "Brooklynese had a bluntness and homeliness," he says. "There is a real joy in variety. Now we're becoming phonetically homogeneous." And that, as they used to say in Brooklyn, is for da boids...