Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bucket," says Frost. His mother went to work teaching school, and young Robert trudged to high school in his grandfather's cut-down suit. He worked in the mills, nailed shoes, helped farmers. He began to read Latin and Greek avidly, wrote his first poem (in blank verse, about Cortes in Mexico), played on the football team and tied for class honors with a girl named Elinor Miriam White...
...some parts of the world not too disturbed for archeology, the diggers were busy last week filling in with spades and delicate brushes a few blank pages of history...
...personal references section of the 39-page application blank has been enlarged and calls for more detailed information about applicants' characters, Monro pointed out. Apparently, the Government had discovered in three years of administrating the program that expert scholars did not always fulfill the ambassadorial functions of Fulbright Fellows...
...sorts of strange things happen when the Veterans Administration sends out its checks. Once, after checks were distributed, there was a sudden invasion of the Counsellor's office. The telephone began ringing incessantly. There were 100 veterans milling about, waving signed but blank checks. "What's the story?" they shouted. Then someone on Miss Witt's staff discovered the trouble: the Veterans Administration's check writing machine had stopped and left a big wad of them undone...
...stated on the application blank, "Loss of priority will result in not applying on time." What the H.A.A. actualy means in that failure to apply on time will result in loss of priority...