Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talk will be given on the second floor of the museum, and it will use the paintings in the permanent exhibition there as examples of restoration. There are two distinct methods of restoring a picture, one is by merely covering the blank spaces with flat color, without attempting to reconstruct the detail, and the other is by trying to paint the picture as it was in the original, before mutilation. Examples of both types will be shown and explained in the talk...
Immediately suspicious, Chief Boatswain's Mate Karl E. Schmidt commanding the Coast Guard boat CG-145 fired three blank shells as a warning for the fugitives to stop. The warning was ignored. He then turned his searchlight on his laterally striped Coast Guard ensign and fired three shots across the fleeing power cruiser's bow. Still she paid no heed. The next shot pierced the vessel's pilot house. She hove to. Running alongside, Mate Schmidt found she was the Josephine K. out of Digby, Nova Scotia with 500 cases of liquor aboard. Unconscious in the cabin...
...times destroyed in times of persecution. Our people here are poor, and though they have done their best, we still need ?10,000 or $50,000 to complete the new church in the center of Ireland. "Will you please give us a helping hand by disposing of the enclosed blank of tickets or sending us a donation? Every little helps and God will reward...
...half way between the two towns, the advancing rebels ran smack into a Federal force. A battery of artillery held the road, their six guns leveled. Rebel scouts ran forward, shouting Viva la Republica, believing these troops were friendly too. An officer's arm dropped. A roaring point-blank artillery broadside tore great holes in the screaming, terrified column. Wrote an eyewitness reporter...
...Also solicited were contributions "not to exceed $100" to buy the space in as many papers as possible. Accompanying the appeal was an advance proof of the advertisement : an open letter to the President with World's Work noted as sponsor, and with surrounding spaces left blank for endorsers' names. Excerpts: ". . . our financial and industrial foundations stand broader and firmer today than at any other time in our history. We believe the American people owe this achievement to ... your sane and progressive leadership. . . . We . . . express our deep gratitude for what you have accomplished during the past year...