Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...games showing up the lack of baseball skill that is contained in the present Freshman class. Last Saturday the Freshmen were scheduled to meet the Samuel Johnson Academy forces, a team that had been beaten only a few times and a well running machine that was doped utterly to blank the Freshman team. Playing the best brand of baseball that they have exhibited to date the first year nine came off with an 11 to 0 shutout...
...Photographers Blank & Stoller a thoroughgoing reprimand for embarrassing TIME and Edward C. Jamieson of Philadelphia by supplying a picture of the latter instead of a picture of Edwin C. Jameson of Manhattan. To Messrs. Jameson and Jamieson, apologies...
...book, make $40 out of it, and then plunge quickly into two or three more years' work on another book. This kind of pluck reminds me of the chap who asked a lawyer for his daughter's hand. 'You work,' said the lawyer, 'for Blank & Co. What are your prospects for promotion?' 'The very best in the whole office,' said the young man. 'My job is the lowest...
...Karachi, busy modern seaport on the Arabian Sea, a mob of 10,000, yelling, waving flags, throwing stones, swept down on the courthouse where six non-violent followers of Mahatma Gandhi were on trial for violating the British salt laws. British police rifles fired volleys point-blank into the crowd before the yelling, rushing wave of rioters dispersed. One native was killed, 33 were wounded, in- cluding two British police sergeants...
Along a like line of thought was the student-enacted pageant at the auditorium of the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken. Unlike most pageants, this one was rapid moving, took only one hour. The first part, showed "The Beginnings." First scene: a perfectly blank, dark stage, allowing the audience to picture whatever they wished...