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Word: blanking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...district president of the United Mine Workers of America, who referred him to pickets at one of the little "wagon mines" which supply the odd-lot coal trade in northern West Virginia. The pickets let the mine supply Mr. Albericon after reading this entry on a medical prescription blank (as noted last week by Scripps-Howard Reporter Fred W. Perkins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Prolonged Abstention | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...buildings which house these exhibits, some of which are almost complete fairs in themselves, are for the most part individually homely. In mass, however, they are peculiarly stimulating. The bright colors and bizarre shapes are gay, the blank walls excellent frames for frequent murals, some good and many not so good. The planning is superb, the lighting exceedingly effective. The overwhelming impression is of incredible, lavish bigness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: In Mr. Whalen's Image | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...title. Katharine acted as a child, as a schoolgirl, in art theatre groups, in stock; at length-and ever more triumphantly-on Broadway. As a neatly blown-up scrapbook of her career, I Wanted to Be an Actress is acceptable enough. But beyond that, the reader draws a blank. Either Katharine Cornell, in her devotion to her profession, has lacked time to study things and people or, having done so, she is resolved to keep mum. Dozens of names, from Greta Garbo's to Alexander Woollcott's, from David Belasco's to Orson Welles's stud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Great Katharine | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

Loafing Freshmen have been sent a scurrying for blank notebooks as the result of announcements in History 1 action meetings on Monday and yesterday requiring students to hand in their reading notes up to date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECTION MEN ASK HISTORY I NOTES FROM IRATE YARDLINGS | 3/22/1939 | See Source »

...characterization is always good and sometimes excellent Burgess Meredith has the part of Prince Hal, but he seems too boyish in his rendition and not at all gallivanting; furthermore his occasional lapses into a "toity-toid street" accent, ostensibly for lightness, does little credit to Shakespeare's blank verse. John Emery, as Hotspur, has great vitality, but often he palls in tearing his passions to tatters. Morris Ankrum as Henry IV gives a sterling performance throughout, and outstanding in the lighter vein are Gus Schilling, as Bardolph, and John Berry, as Poins...

Author: By V. F. Jr., | Title: The Playgoer | 2/28/1939 | See Source »

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