Word: blankly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Endeavoring to verify Mr. Arnold's statement that other departments of the University have stolen a march on the Business School in advertising their wares, the CRIMSON encountered a blank wall. Inner circles could recall no instance but admitted the possibility...
...quirk of blank treaties gave Mr. Hull a graceful out. As he raced to catch his boat to Buenos Aires, he announced that able U. S. Minister to Uruguay J. Butler Wright, a member of the U. S. Delegation, will thoroughly examine Conference treaties as they are completed, signing those which seem to be in order, sending them to the State Department...
...this last that Harvard men knew him best. Many a prospective young teacher visited Mr. Cram, diffident but hopeful, and watched that careful consignment of his blank to the files of the Secretary of Appointments. The weeks passed, and the hope waned, but always there came the little note, the position which had been snatched out of the air, it seemed, by Mr. Cram's quiet diligence and energy. On these occasions the student found it difficult to believe that George Washington Cram could ever slam a telephone receiver, that he was, of all University Hall officials, the most exacting...
...rise and burst refulgent on the Imperial Maternity Pavilion, freshly built in the Fountain Garden of Tokyo's moat-encircled Chiyoda Palace. Minute by minute they approached-the Sun Goddess and the Imperial Child-in what to Japanese courtiers standing motionless in full regalia with faces reverently blank seemed a divine unison. In an adjoining room of the Pavilion stoically waited His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Hirohito with the traditional weapons. Always before he had had to give the newborn a dagger, the birthright of every Japanese girl to protect her purity. Four daggers had he thus given...
...took Mr. Livermore to his office said he had become "terribly sick" in the cab. Day after his disappearance Mr. Livermore returned home, walking unsteadily, his face muffled inside his coat collar (see cut). His story: he had spent the night in a hotel, had awakened with a blank mind; newspaper headlines about himself brought him to his senses. His doctor's story: "Amnesia nervous breakdown." Pending against...