Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Historian Edward Gibbon considered the 14 months he spent at Oxford "the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life." And Henry Adams thought little more of Harvard: "Four years at Harvard College . . . resulted in an autobiographical blank, a mind on which only a watermark had been stamped...
Quarter backing Weak Item: that quarter backing for the Crimson is either inept or too deep for the average man to understand. Saturday Kenny O'Donnell, who had already missed with two point blank range tosses, elected to throw another on his own 34 with third down and less than a yard to go. The pass went into the small of Sam Adams back...
Back in Paris, angry Pianist Weill told French newsmen her tale. Said she: "I had reached the middle of the last movement . . . there were no more difficulties ahead and there was nothing that might have provoked any confusion. Suddenly there was a complete blank in my memory.... I would have taken the whole matter for an unpleasant incident, had I not heard a strange explanation from one of the orchestra's musicians. After the end of the concert, this musician went out on the casino terrace for a drink. At the next table he overheard four men exchanging congratulations...
Several dozen exploded-blank cartridges later, the rally jammed around the steps of the Athletic Building, where Dick Harlow, Captain Vince Moravec, & Co., called for solid vocal support for this afternoon's game...
...University recommendation is forthcoming, this must be mailed to the State Committee along with the application blank, he explained...