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blackboard

[blak-bawrd, -bohrd] / ˈblækˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd /
NOUN
chalkboard
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His breakthrough came in The Blackboard Jungle in 1955, in the role of a disruptive pupil in an inner-city school.

From BBC • Jan. 7, 2022

The message noted that system updates implemented by Blackboard over the weekend had not corrected technical issues.

From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2020

He went on to appear in films like "Blackboard Jungle," "Forbidden Planet," "The Tender Trap," "Love Me Tender," "The Last Wagon," "Pollyanna," "Ten Who Dared," "Ride the High Country," among others.

From Fox News • Apr. 6, 2020

It did more than that, however, spawning a wave of American beach movies that were a sunny departure from such juvenile delinquency pictures as “The Blackboard Jungle,” which had been all the rage.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 2019

See that the outline is thoroughly committed to memory, and test the pupil's knowledge by calling upon him to read at sight the Blackboard Outline below.

From Outline Studies in the Old Testament for Bible Teachers by Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman



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