Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Early in 1923, the U. S. Public Health Service worked out a plan for obtaining more facts than have been heretofore available concerning the common cold. Blank forms were furnished to some 13,000 persons in eleven different localities from Massachusetts to California. Each one of these persons was expected to report every two weeks as to whether or not lie had had a cold; and to supply at the same time information concerning the climate of his locality, whether or not he had been exposed to dampness or changes of temperature, the type of clothing which he wore...
...brain the images of the kings and prophets of his people in the old time: Absalom's body, slim as a spear, twisting from the bough on which his dark hair tangled; Moses listening rapt to the voice of God. Unlike that nameless artist who exhibited a blank canvas, declaring that it showed the Israelites Crossing the Red Sea- the Sea pushed back, the Israelites just passed over, the Egyptians not yet come up-Mr. Pann of Jerusalem paints the pictures that his heart perceives. He has set himself the task of illustrating the Bible. Already he has finished...
Frequently the notes cover the whole blank margins of a page, sometimes running over onto the next one, with pungent criticism of the author's statements. Others are briefer, as "Whoo!" at one place, and "Abaurd" at another or "What can be allude to here?" At another place he notes "The merciless sport of the Gladiators must have had no little share in rendering the legitimate Tragedy insipid to the Romans. To obviate this the few Roman Tragic writers out-Heroded Herod, or deformed their dialogues into the epigrammatic...
...late King Edward as private secretary and filled the same office for King George, until age forced his retirement. He was a lifelong friend of the Queen Mother, Alexandra, now going on 80. Possessor of innumerable court secrets, he was mum as a headstone. A publisher sent him a blank check so that he could fix his own price for a book of reminiscences ; he tore up the check. In the days when Edward VII was a rollicking Prince of Wales, Knollys was often the butt of practical jokes. "Bay" Middleton, famed sportsman, had a penchant for catching a coat...
...official name has yet been given. It will occupy the same position as Dane Hall, which burned down in 1917 and will face the opening between Matthews and Grays Hall. Thus the back of the building will face on Harvard Square, and in order not to make a blank wall facing on Massachusetts Avenue eight wood pilasters some 34 feet high, will be erected...