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Word: blankly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leverett House follows in point of leniency with students being asked only to sign a blank in the Janitor's office by 12 o'clock of the day in question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL HOUSES DIFFER IN APPLICATION OF PARIETAL RULING | 1/5/1937 | See Source »

...death of Arthur Brisbane ... but all that I can think of for the moment is that I have lost my friend. ... I grieve for that and realize the loss. ... I grieve inconsolably . . . that the world in which I must spend my few remaining years will hold for me a blank space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death of Brisbane | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

...healthy students. Since the waves change in character according to the physical well-being of the body and the activity of the mind, Travis & Gottlober tried to get records under uniform conditions by having the subjects lie down in a dark room, try to keep their minds blank. Then Travis & Gottlober and two other researchers tried to see if they could tell which of the oscillograms came from the same brains. In Science last week they reported that in a long series of tests, they made 352 correct identifications, 20 errors. This was accuracy of 94%, much higher than could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Brain Prints | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...janitor, frankly bored with the whole affair, wrote on his blank that he'd just as soon see Kaiser Wilhelm become king. "He's the late king's cousin, and if we learn by our mistakes, think how much he's learned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT BODY, KING AGREE WALLY QUEEN, TI DUM, TI DE | 12/8/1936 | See Source »

Merchant Johnson, who has helped Samuel Fleisher with a modest project to collect baskets of flowers from sleek Radnor estates to distribute in the Philadelphia slums, became interested in the Cultural Olympics and promised to write a blank check to launch them if Mr. Fleisher would get a solid organization behind him. In Philadelphia no organization is more solid than the University of Pennsylvania and the pair called on President Gates. Not averse to making news or friends during his money drive for the University's 1940 Bicentennial, President Gates last week agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cultural Olympics | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

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