Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Upperclassmen should pick up their blank cards in the Registrar's Office as soon as possible, according to Miss Ruth Davenport, Registrar. Freshmen will receive their cards Monday at a compulsory class meeting in Agassiz...
Truculent. Blunt, taciturn Chess Master Reshevsky had outraged his Cuban hosts by his point-blank refusal to join the other players in a Friday visit to the tomb of Cuban World Champion José Capablanca. Reshevsky later explained that he could not make the trip on Friday, since his Jewish religion forbids public travel after sundown. But he also demanded that the player's day off should be Friday, not Sunday. Furthermore, Reshevsky refused, up to the final day, to agree to leave the winner's trophy in Cuba. Originally donated by Argentina, the cup had been renamed...
...Leader P.J.D. Wood of the R.A.F. touched off the controversy after the death of George VI. While intoning the commemorative service for the late sovereign, wrote Commander Wood to the Telegraph, he had snatched a quick look round at the faces of his airmen, and found them a perfect blank. Wood's conclusion: "Only a student of theology can understand the true meaning of many of our common prayers...
...marry an American oilman, came under surveillance. In two months her widowed mother's house was searched twelve times by flying squads (and burglarized twice by thieves obviously untroubled by Seguridad patrolling). One day a friend saw a station wagon and a group of small, shabby men with blank expressions and Cuban heels outside Evelyn's house, and spotted them for Seguridad detectives...
House application blanks seem to run in cycles, as far as room pricing systems go. In 1931 the categories stretched right across the blank--from $100 to $620 in $20 increases. This proved cumbersome and was discontinued the next year, when men were asked only to name their preferred price. In 1933 the room prices were reduced $36 and in 1934 a $180 minimum was instituted...