Word: blankness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...companies must keep on putting out other less inspired pictures to stay in the black. Under these circumstances Paramount produced "The Paleface," a drama of the Old West which concerns the famous Calamity Jane and a mousy dentist. All who go to see this film with an open (preferably blank) mind will probably think it somewhere between riotous and hilarious. It may not be art, but it certainly is terrific entertainment...
...last, with expressions of relief, they sat down before blank pieces of bond paper and wrote down the names of Harry Truman and Alben Barkley. But as they rose quietly, to escape, the chairman called: "Now, we're not through yet. We all have to sign six copies." A handful of disappointed spectators began drifting away. When John Windsor departed, after three hours and 40 minutes, he grunted: "I don't think I've accomplished anything today but spend some of the state's money." (A fee of $8.32 plus $12 travel expenses...
Most branches of technology have a backlog of unfinished business: basic principles worked out theoretically but not yet put to use. With jet propulsion, it is just the opposite. Practical jet engineers are already working close to the limits of theoretical knowledge. Ahead of them lies a blank area which the "longhairs" (theoretical men) have hardly begun to explore...
...less hurtful than any other university ... It taught little, and that little ill, but it left the mind open, free from bias, ignorant of facts, but docile . . ." In effect, "the school created a type but not a will. Four years of Harvard College, if successful, resulted in an autobiographical blank, a mind on which only a watermark had been stamped...
...ancient mosaics gleamed under the huge crystal chandeliers, and incense rose in clouds. Chanting the Kyrie Eleison, the twelve bearded metropolitans and their five alternates solemnly filed in and dropped their ballots into a silver urn. When the votes were counted, eleven were for Athenagoras and six were blank. "Axios!" (worthy) roared the crowd, and the cathedral bells began to peal...