Word: blankness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freshmen who received CRIMSON Confidential Guide polls in the Union yesterday are requested to fill out the polls today and return them to the box in the Union Hall. Blank polls will be made available again at lunch hour in the Union and at the CRIMSON building during...
Overlapping interests will be adjusted and blank areas assigned at the American Library Association's next meeting, to be held in San Francisco the first week in June...
...last and most serious blank space on the meteorologist's map is Antarctica, whose violent winds probably affect the whole world. Not until this gap is filled can the meteorologists trace every major weather condition to its birthplace...
...true that the words "under Hitler things were better" can be heard on every street in Germany, but that is no indication of Nazi-mindedness-it is a human and inevitable harking back to times when things were better (in a material sense). The future is an utter blank. To escape into the past is the only way out. Were the occupation forces to withdraw, a demagogue might find fruitful soil, as Adolf Hitler did 20 years ago. Given a leader, the Germans would again follow, as they have followed before. But today they have no leadership whatever...
When the world was full of unexplored land, storytellers had it easy. Who could be certain that there were no such things as unicorns, rocs, two-headed men, hippogriffs, basilisks, amazons? The only sizeable blank spot left on the globe-the interior of Antarctica-has been written off by most romancers as hopelessly, unromantically cold...