Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shot him because I loved him," the woman chuckled, according to the police, who found her loitering, in the subway station with $15 in marked bills and a State bonus blank. She said it was the roughest voyage of her sixty years' experience in the North Atlantic. "And besides," she added with eyes a-twinkle, "I never said that the Prince proposed...
London now awaits with ill-concealed impatience the first public performance of this alluring work. Something of the sort might have been expected ever since Bernard Shaw, in his The Admirable Bashville, put the fortunes of the pugilist on the stage in heroic blank verse. And now it has been suggested that the American composer turn away from Negro, Red Indian and Sunday Supplement subjects, and devote his muse to creating an interpretation of the character and physique of Jeff or John L. Sullivan for Chaliapin's titanic bass voice-and figure. This may mean that the operatic star...
...things went wrong. The American Federation of Labor, which does not believe in direct political action, stayed away. Senator La Follette had repudiated point-blank any support the Convention might give him, declaring that it was in the hands of communist interests. So only about 400 delegates came...
...spiritual insurance policy, plus a snobbish disdain for the uninsured ninety-and-nine: in the words of the song, 'The bells of hell go ting-a-ling-a-ling for you but not for me.' And by the incarnation (if they do not register a blank) that God so loved the world that He-sent someone else. And by the Church that we mean only that particular branch or sect to which we happen to belong. And I think you will agree that their religious teachers have given them a picture of heaven and hell out of Milton...
...from the developing bath) is held taut and curved in the form of a cylinder, like an old-fashioned phonograph record. Light, from an ordinary automobile lamp, is passed through a lens and concentrated in a small spot at one corner of the film. At the receiving station a blank film is formed into a similar cylinder. By a device known as a synchronizer, the cylinders at both ends are started simultaneously and turned at the same rate of speed. The light beam travels in a continuous line over the picture, until it reaches the opposite side. In the center...