Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Second (fumbling)-"My income tax blank you mean...
Student or senior councils, have suffered a severe loss of prestige and power in more than one college during the last few years: The Princetonian last year reflected student opinion accurately when in its annual parody number it displayed a complete blank under the heading "Activities of the Senior Council." At Harvard skepticism of the value of Student Councils has taken the form of indifference. A steadily diminishing vote for Student Council members reached its low water mark this year when little more than a third of the Junior and Sophomore classes took the trouble to fill out their ballots...
...kept in doubt because whatever merits this detective tale night possess plausibility is not one of them. Still it compensates for its lack of realism by a surplus of mystery and melodrama. A scarecrow plays a major part in the plot. Every elue in the murder led to a blank wall until Detective Faucet spied the blood on the living room carpet and all that sort of thing...
Such a question, such a thought was no doubt remote from the blank and infant mind of Princess Sachiko Hisa-No-Miya of Japan last week. She died without having reached the age at which humans become articulate to others and probably before she became articulate to herself...
...these have relapsed to their customary winter somnolence. The driverless taxi systems have put the tops up on their roadsters. The section men have handed in blank attendance slips--and the college has retired into hibernation once more until temperamental March decides just what it is going...