Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have Europe pacified, we cannot have large countries outside the cooperating nations. We cannot bring peace to Europe if we leave Russia out. That is the biggest reason for these Russian treaties. We shall not ask the House of Commons for a blank check. We shall state the amount and we shall ask Parliament to decide the conditions under which it will guarantee the loan, how it shall be spent and the securities that must be demanded...
Selden states that the hold-up man fired directly at him from a distance of about three feet. He also states that the cartridge was a blank, for no bullet struck him or any part of the building. From this and his nervous actions Selden believes that the man was inexporienced in the hold-up game...
...this year a numerical limit of 2000. Anyone who is connected with the University, whether in the student of alumni bodies, or a member of one of the faculties, is eligible to join the Union and may do so by presenting a Bursar's card and signing a membership blank. This may be done at any of the places of registration, or at the Bursar's office, of at the Union itself...
...officially adopted. International finance can scarcely accomplish much until this has been done, and the German loan floated. Soon the publicity tom-toms should begin to beat, summoning U. S. investors to the lottery in European stocks and bonds. Many prize numbers will doubtless be drawn, also some utterly blank pieces of paper. The beginning of this interesting process, along with our own Presidential election, should at any rate lend entertainment to an Autumn whose business prospects are still thoroughly uncertain...
When copper producers were questioned last week about July output, sales and stocks of the red metal, a blank silence resulted. Previously these figures had been made available each month, and the new policy of concealment was therefore a drastic change from that pursued before...