Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...asked him to sign a death certificate for Miss Ayres, although she was still alive. At first he refused. But then he examined her, decided that she probably had only a couple of hours to live, and he signed the certificate, leaving the cause of death blank. Dr. Genovese spent the rest of the day at the races at Jamaica. Next day, he learned that Lizzie (Ayres had died, and he asked Dr. Gibson where he should send his bill. Dr. Gibson asked how many calls he had made, and he told him about 20. Dr. Gibson said to charge...
...should not be considered as anything more vital than that. The most important problem is the long-range one of staving off the inroads made by other Ivy League colleges on the yearly number of Harvard applicants. The Admissions Office can no longer assume that a Harvard application blank is enough to attract outstanding school boys...
...Blank Checks...
...Once the Veterans' Administration made a mistake with its check-writing machine, and all the amounts were left blank," relates Miss Margaret Witt of the Counselor For Veterans Office, "and a horde of students swooped down to find out what was wrong." She routinely set the eager students right as part of her job as a liaison between the Veterans Administration, the departments of the University and the some 1300 University veterans...
...incomes; the government in return automatically triples whatever declaration the taxpayer makes. This year, at the urging of U.S. Marshall Plan officials, the government decided to reform all that. Under the new tax law, filled with all kinds of clauses to tempt the taxpayer to be honest, income tax blanks went on sale (another curious Italian custom) in the nation's tobacco shops at 25 lire (4?) each. But last week, when tax returns fell due, the mice couldn't get at the cheese. Speculators had bought up the whole available supply of tax blanks, and were selling...