Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are 23 members of the Freshman Class who have turned in blank concentration slips and 26 who have not turned in anything. Fifty upperclassmen had no plan as of last November, when the last tabulation was taken...
...picked Pablo Picasso's monumental oil, The Pipes of Pan, as a contemporary example of the Greek glorification of the body. Picasso's heavy-limbed athletes had the same solidity as sculpture, and for all their blank faces and lumpish hands & feet they seemed to glow with life and health. It was a safe bet that artists a century from now would still be learning from the Greeks...
Last week, with a grumbling reluctance about signing "a blank check which private airline management may fill...
...rumble of moving furniture came again last week from the blank-walled Soviet fortress. This time it was a brief official announcement that Marshal Nikolai Bulganin, 53, had been "relieved of his duties" as Minister of Armed Forces and replaced in that post by Marshal Alexander Vasilevsky (also 53). Again speculation buzzed through the free world. What did this rumble mean...
...Botanical Gardens are no more. A University-sponsored housing development will soon take their place, but until then only a bleak, blank space will great passers by at the corner of Linnean and Garden Streets. Above this barren area stands the Grey Herbarium, a Botanic Research center, the sole remaining part of the Cambridge landmark...