Word: blankness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...river traffic. Their electronic eyes could pierce the blackest night, the soupiest fog or rain, spotting every ship, buoy, dock or shoreline. Dock masters could warn a scuttling ferry (in appropriate nautical language) that a long, lean liner was fixing to cut her in two. They could guide a blank-blank collier through the blank-blank sandbars...
Lean and leisurely John Tinney McCutcheon was crowding his deadline. His mind and drawing board were blank, and the bulldog edition over at the Chicago Tribune would wait just so long. Outside his studio window, there was a promise of fall in the hazy September air. He fell to daydreaming . . . on such a smoky afternoon, back home in Indiana, a boy might gaze at a cornfield studded with tattered golden shocks, and see them turn into Indian tepees. Idly he began to sketch. When the Tribune messenger arrived, he had finished his greatest cartoon. That was 39 years...
Such splendor falls on theater stalls only on great occasions. This, in a way, was a great one: Better Late, Bea Lillie's first British musical* since 1942. The show itself was not much. Sighed the News Chronicle: "... A thing of shreds and patches-witty shreds and blank patches." The blank patches were very, very blank, particularly an aching void called Give My Love to London...
Disturbance of telegraph and teletype communications is due in part to a phenomenon which stems directly from the abnormal electrical charge carried by the ionized atmosphere. The wires which carry the telegraph circuits absorb from the atmosphere sufficient charge to blank out the original current. Last week Western Union reported induced voltages five times those ordinarily present in a line transmitting messages...
...Major Blank liked the names, and so did the 149 students, from private to colonel, who attended the Army's first eight-week session at Cambridge. By the second term, Bull even had its old school tie (royal blue with embroidered gold bull's head). Last week, at graduation, the Army announced that there would be no third term: men could no longer be spared from depleted ETO forces. Also closing: the G.I. paradise, Biarritz American University and the G.I. Swiss University...