Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government calmly announced that blank ballots "found" in the boxes would be counted as yes votes...
...business with him, realize the extent of his infiltration into the rural press. W.N.U.'s 29 plants supply "ready-print" pages (complete with Lydia Pinkham ads) to 2,500 papers, which buy their stock with W.N.U. canned features on one side, put their local news on the blank side. Hundreds go in debt to W.N.U. whenever they buy equipment-another way of holding them...
...Phelan spun a neat 3-hitter to blank the Terriers 6 to 0 on Soldiers Field. The story was just about reversed on June 5, when Joe Gathman let the Stahlmen down with 3 hits while his mates pounded the lead up to 8 to 0 before Jupe Pluvious stepped in and called a halt to the contest in the sixth inning...
Similar interruptions are typical of those who struggle through the blank forms in Memorial Hall today. Nearly all of them are either "old veterans," returning to pick up the loose threads of an education rudely ripped apart by unfortunate necessity, or new Freshmen older and more mature by several years than the prewar average...
...experiences, lessons. We see five figures going over an obstacle course together, and at the end of it they don red flannels and carry cow bells. We see a portrait, with two names under it. We hear a tinkling, and then the rapping of bits of metal as the blank yellow is dotted with significant black. We see a wooden chair with a large back, and a midget sitting in this throne of giants. We see a gracious, skillful, friendly leader sitting surrounded by functional and orderly rocks, and thereby are reminded of countless helping hands stretched out behind...