Word: blankly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...55th birthday Albert Einstein filled out a Federal income tax blank as a nonresident alien, mailed it with his check from Princeton to the Collector of Internal Revenue for the First New Jersey District...
...Line," whirled it out on the floor. Her sibilant voice was gushing in his ear. "Y'know, I'm a delegate from Latvia, but I haven't been to a single meeting. I've been up in a fellow's room in the Law School since Thursday afternoon." A blank-faced silver-spangled gown cut in. He executed a delicate...
Masons, plasterers and glaziers clambered around wooden scaffolding busily repairing gaping holes in Vienna's great municipal apartment houses. Street-corner telephone booths, kiosks and blank walls suddenly blossomed with green and white posters of Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg and Vice Chancellor Emil Fey. From Budapest arrived sleek bespectacled Fulvio Suvich, Italian Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, who had been discussing a possible Italian-Austro-Hungarian trade alliance with the Hungarian Government. He closeted himself for several hours with little Chancellor Dollfuss, then rushed off for Rome. In Trieste, earlier in the week, Italian police suddenly...
...this connection, a letter which has been sent to each Freshman along with the application blank and House pamphlet states that "in considering special claims for admission to a particular House, weight will be given to a student's intellectual interests. It is not possible to have all fields of knowledge represented in all Houses. It is important, therefore, for those men who have definite interests to consider the implications of the choice of a House for those interests. Careful attention should be given to the special fields within the general fields of concentration which are represented by the tutorial...
Technically the gun is described as being a .22 calibre rifle butt, to which is attached a one-inch tube to serve as the barrel. The elevating and traversing mechanisms are worked by geared hand wheels, and have a movable field of 45 degrees each. The blank cartridges are black powder, and the gun is muzzle loading...