Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Jesse Jones asked the House of Representatives to countersign a blank check already drawn for him by the Senate...
Albert L. "Bobby" Lincoln will lead next year's 150-pound crew as a result of his selection as captain of Bert Haines' lightweights for 1942. Lincoln rowed four on this year's record breaking boat, although previous to that his College rowing experience was practically a blank...
WRITTEN in blank verse and viewing the current war purely as a struggle between a moustached Mephistopheles and British Righteousness, Alfred Noyes' new poem lacks both rhyme and reason. The stirring ballad style and pointed irony of his more famous poetry has yielded to Carlyic-like turgidity and verbosity. The former Princeton professor approaches a quotable quote only once in half a hundred pages when he condemns amongst the wave of irrationalists who prepared the intellectuals for Hitler...
...Brock hadn't thought much about sketching in Cairo; but he reported last week from Budapest that the more he talked with talkative German soldiers the more certain he was that the Nazi machine would aim point-blank at Cairo and the Suez Canal very soon. Making the most of his talent for getting around, Correspondent Brock pieced together the following agenda: By the end of this week the Nazis intended to bulldoze Turkey into permitting the passage of German troops and equipment, lending air bases to the Luftwaffe, placing roads, railroads and wires at complete disposal...
...Wally DeWitt who copped the scoring honors with steady toe. The former Stanford center counted eight conversions out of ten attempts to collect a total of 16 points as his final effort for the Rugby Club. Shelley of Queens kept the score from a blank by making good a penalty kick for three points...