Word: blanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stengle had managed to take over almost complete control of his schools' finances. He would draw checks on a special revolving "high school fund" by forging the name of the school board's secretary as cosigner. Instead of official checks with their serial numbers, he used personal blank checks, took the added precaution of making them out to cash. At the end of the month, he counted up the money he had stolen, drew a check for that amount on the school district's tax fund by forging the names of the school board's president...
...after the Chicago Institute announced its discovery, the Courtauld Institute announced in London that it had found an answer to an older puzzle. Among the paintings owned by Queen Elizabeth is one attributed to Titian, titled Titian and Friend. For generations scholars have been troubled by the disturbing blank area at the right of the painting. Placing it under X ray, the London institute discovered a long-suspected third figure, a man younger than the others. Experts have guessed that Titian's first friend was Venetian Grand Chancellor Andrea dei Franceschi, but Friend No. 2, and the reasons...
...letter from a Mr. Marlowe [Jan. 13] refers to the "peaceful dignity" and "serene beauty" found in the Lutheran and Episcopal churches. If dignity is found in plate-glass windows, why aren't the Protestants holding services in greenhouses? If "serene beauty" means blank walls, there are air-raid shelters. Granted we Catholics occasionally lapse into the tranquilized interiors of modern-style architecture, but when we do, it is only to share the blame Mr. Marlowe claims other religions have total right...
...Compton. Pasadena, Long Beach and Hollywood, Caruso refined cheating, double-dealing and intimidation into such a formalized art that he actually conducted regular classroom sessions to teach his salesmen (nine of whom got lighter sentences) how to go about it. Salesmen were instructed to get customers to sign blank contracts, later cut the trade-in allowance and raise the new car price they wrote in on the contract. They were taught to spout figures at a torrential rate to confuse the buyer, and to never put a deal in writing. If a customer took out his own piece of paper...
...blighted romance of a frail-gunning G.I. and a beautiful Italian girl who is bothered about being bought. Now Scriptwriter Hayes (The Rainmaker, Island in the Sun) has restaged his old no-soap opera. This time the shattered city is Hollywood. The Girl on Wilshire Boulevard is a blank-souled beauty with a neurotic yearning for stardom. The sentimental, insensitive G.I. is a few years older and wryer-a screenwriter on leave from his wife. The prose still has an unwashed smell, but it has been sponged off here and there with the English lavender of Henry James. The details...