Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plain people of Germany the future is a blank space-when they have time to think of it. Mostly they don't, since the present holds too many problems of bare existence. But last week, in flattened Frankfurt, TIME Correspondent Percy Knauth found a German civilian, ex-mayor of a nearby town, who had thought earnestly about the future. Knauth's report...
Night after night he used a secret trick to enter the locked doors of Wall Street offices. When he found a company with a big bank account, he would steal a few blank checks, often marking the stubs "destroyed because of bad printing." The second part of his work called for more skill. He would study the life and habits of a Manhattan businessman, learn to impersonate him, then open a bank account in his name...
...Girls (see cut), a lithograph by Margaret Goss of a blank-faced blond girl and a deadpan colored girl sitting side by side on a settee, was the high point in race-consciousness-with-humor...
Through the Walls. Soviet War Correspondent V. Poltoratsky saw Breslau and wrote: "The assault detachments never proceed along the streets. That would be quite impossible. They blast corridors through the centers of rows of houses. A shell fired point-blank at a wall makes a doorway for the gun that fired it. The gun is dragged through and the gunners send another shell through the next wall...
People at arty New York cocktail parties think the bearded man in the shabby clothes who is sometimes invited is a hum, but unlike the other residents of the Bowery, Gould is not a shambling, blank-expressioned alcoholic. He has a spark of vigor--some people call it exhibitionism--and a broad Harvard A that sets him apart from the rest...