Word: blanke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...causes of the Revolution. Under them a husband could lock up his wife, a father his son, or the state could exile or imprison a dissenter, without judicial processes. Theoretically, the king signed each order. Actually, they were filled out, with the space for the name left blank, and clerks could issue them when needed, confining an enemy indefinitely. An estimated 150,000 lettres de cachet were issued during the reign of Louis...
Instead of turning the story over to others in his 15-man Washington bureau, Chief Andrews set to digging it out himself. His dispassionate study of the case of "Mr. Blank" filled six columns of the Herald Tribune on Nov. 2. Factual as a cookie recipe, it struck a more telling blow for liberty than any arm-waving leftist could have landed, and it caused a change in State Department policy...
George Hauptfuhrer (20), Walt McCurdy (19), and John Rockwell (11) led the Crimson scoring. The rest of the Harvards were firing mostly blank cartridges all night. Cornell built up a rapid nine-to-two lead in the opening minutes and at one point during the first half held a 20-point bulge...
...glass disc arrived at the Pasadena optical shop of the California Institute of Technology to be ground and polished. The 20-ton blank was placed face up on a turntable. As it revolved slowly, a 48-inch disc set with blocks of abrasive was stroked mechanically back & forth from its edge across its center. The whole process was maddeningly tedious...
Veterans using the AVC book exchange facilities can obtain authorization for their cash purchases by filling out a provided blank in triplicate and taking two copies to the Veterans office in Weld Hall...