Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effect that Boston is the American home of correct English. But when the former editor of the London Daily Chronicle states that America as a whole is the stronghold of the English tongue and should therefore initiate measures for its preservation, the compliment elicits only an expression of blank dismay...
...Yale game no application can be considered unless one of the seats applied for is for the personal occupancy of the applicant. If the applicant finds he cannot personality attend the game, he must, in accordance with his agreement on the blank, return all seats allotted to him. This applies even though the seats are for the members of the applicant's family. The penalty for a violation of this agreement is blacklisting. In the interest of undergraduates and graduates who are entitled to two seats if available, the Association will use every effort to discover and punish such violations...
...Next I made sure of getting hold of a Republican in the chauffeur of the automobile that was hurrying us back from Cintra. I had Luisita ask him point-blank how he liked the Republic. 'Not at all,' he replied, in Portuguese, 'the Republic is no good. Better...
...porch campaign of 1920, the then Senator Harding told him: "I want the U. S. to get into the League [of Nations] just as much as you do . . . I am opposed to the Wilson League . . . but the League can be changed . . ." "But in your own Party what will Senator Blank say?"asked Professor Fisher "Oh! Senator Blank doesn't care. I know him better than you do. When he takes his extreme stand he is doing so for political effect" Warren T. McCray is known as a brother-in-law of George Ade (humorist) and a raiser of prize...
...armored car, accompanied by Free State troops, proceeded to clear the crowd. Shots were fired over the heads of the assembly, who dispersed in panic. De Valera is reported to have dropped at the first shot, although a statement issued by the Free State Government said that only " blank " ammunition was used. Friends tried to rescue their leader. He was pulled from the platform and carried?into the arms of the troops, who arrested him on the charge of arson and murder...