Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George Santayana began as a poet, and, though he came to be known as philosopher, teacher and critic, a poet he remained. There was nothing blank, free or modern about his verses'; they rhymed, and what he had to say often sounded like a translation from the Latin classics, with which he was intimately familiar. When he died in Rome last month at 88, this poem, entitled The Poet's Testament, was found among his papers. Read at his funeral in place of a religious service, it reminded many a listener of the work of Catullus, who wrote...
...only six charities will appear on the card, in addition to the three blank spaces . . . . Over 50 percent of the students took this opportunity (to write in other charities) in last year's drive...
Baum has since joined the Currey forces. Although he was one of the four people who signed an order blank for beer, he said he did not want the party held in his room...
...give two reasons: First, that course monitors could not avoid counting upperclass noses unless all the upperclassmen sat together. While such segregation is undesirable, it is also unnecessary. Upperclassmen can be assigned seats with no obligation to dutifully occupy them, and the course monitors can simply leave these places blank on their seating charts, to be filled in only if the upperclassman is on probation...
Some changes were obvious. To make sense in 20th century English, "Libertines" became "Freedmen," "feeble minded" was changed to "faint-hearted," and "mortify" to "put to death." All the poetic passages in the Old Testament (40% of the whole including the Psalms) were translated in blank verse...