Schoolteachers' surfaces

Usage examples of blackboards.

The teacher was covered with chalkdust and the blackboards were covered with simple additions and subtractions, by multiplicands, multipliers, and products, by dividends, divisors, and quotients.

All the tables and desks in the squadroom were occupied and two blackboards on wheels had appeared overnight.

He pointed to the blackboards then and worked his way through the questions which several of the policemen put to him.

Keating stood, moved to the blackboards and talked his way methodically down the lists.

Hoey, his copies in his hand at the blackboards, wrote in the sighting at Dalkey train station on Sunday.

Having heard about the fight, she laid off a border around the top of the blackboards for him to fill with animals, and, when he had completed his parade, she bought with her own money a huge drawing pad and a soft pencil.

The professor, who was barking for his own course, had in his hand a mechanized collapsible pointer with which he tapped the blackboards for emphasis, as the pointer kept shooting out and returning to its pencil size.

Isaac’s laboratory had been a factory and a warehouse years ago, and its huge, dusty floorspace swamped the little benches and retorts and blackboards that perched in its corners.

Noted names from Berkeley and Caltech spent pleasant months scribbling on blackboards while outside, the General Atomic squirrels and rabbits lazily foraged for their handouts.

In dry, precise tones he told of their precautions against outside signals, of the waxing and waning of the "spontaneous resonance"–now he used the term archly, pausing before and after the words as if to put verbal quotation marks around them, smiling very slightly–and he paced back and forth before the blackboards, trying to remember the measured way Dyson had done it, head tilted down.

Brad continued, having taken advantage of the break to move to one of the blackboards, and now erasing the complex "sprouts" diagram there, "we might visualize space as a taut elastic fabric, and the masses in our universe as assorted objects resting upon it.

Julie was supported against the writing-desk, surrounded by blackboards covered with infantile drawings and gigantic letters of the alphabet distributed by the class.

Five of the blackboards were washed clean, although it was possible to see the ghost of previous messages, of jobs long filled and now lost forever as far as we were concerned.

Standing against the wall were two school blackboards, completely covered with charts of some kind.