Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John T. Sheppard, Provost of King's College, had given the G.I. College its name. Noting that most of the G.I.s had been quartered in the famed old Bull Hotel, because Cambridge's colleges were overcrowded he told the students and U.S. Army Major George Dewey Blank, their boss: "As the word 'Hotel' sounds so very undignified, I just call you simply 'Bull College.' And you, Major Blank, I refer to as the 'Big Bull...
...wasn't prepared for the clear white space which greeted her eyes when she turned the communication over. First throught was Irvin H. Blank, research fellow in Dermatology. Or maybe Carlos A. Blanco '49, or Dorothy J. Blanker at the School of Education, or Euan T. Blanch 1M. Finally she sent it to the Lampoon, one-time University funny magazine. "They've been drawing blanks for years," she said...
...couplets, in blank verse, in measured
During the war he became one of the world's most widely traveled men, covering some 120,000 miles by plane. His four war books sold 300,000 copies; his war-inspired blank verse, popular but undistinguished, appeared in Collier's and Good Housekeeping. In the past three years his writing brought in $250,000, which went to charities. He became the first archbishop to sell a book to Hollywood, when M-G-M decided to film his wartime parable, The Risen Soldier...
...mild-mannered, snood-eyed Melvin Jerome Blanc (pronounced blank) has more job offers than he can fill. He has ducked proposals for a show of his own, prefers to pocket the $2,000 a week he gets from making the big stars a little bigger. That way, he says, he can spend his free time fishing, eating eclairs and running a hardware store in Los Angeles County. Reading his fan mail over Jack Benny's shoulder doesn't bother...