Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...under circumstances which not a few European nations were willing to accept rather than themselves fight, and it certainly cannot be used as a case for the necessity of defensive preparation. There was of course provocation of more or less grave nature in all of these instances, but the blank fact remains that the United States has never been attacked...
...each Freshman the Committee has also sent a blank on which to indicate the courses which he intends to take during the remainder of his college career. After the proper conferences with his faculty advisor and a representative from that department in which he wishes to concentrate, the Freshman is required to submit this card with that of the courses...
...matter uppermost in his mind, probably, would in any case not be the question of passing his idle hours, but of keeping his hours from being idle. Joseph Hergesheimer solved the problem quite simply. He would take ten blank books, and write his own literature to order...
...speaker stated that on one day, supposed to be a holiday, the I. W. W. gang was ordered to unload some coal. When they refused point blank to work while the other prisoners were enjoying a moving picture they were placed in isolation, put on bread and water, and strung up by the hands for fourteen days for eight hours a day. On the eight day they were beaten with baseball bats by some prisoners who had been given long sentences for murder and other crimes, and who beat the men with the hope of getting a commutation...
...this demand materializes, each man will still be sure of the seats for which be applied on the first blank. If, on the other hand, the demand fails to reach the liberal estimate fixed, the second application blank comes into use. this, returned with the first one, will have been filled out by each applicant for one or more extra tickets, according to his classification, to be allotted in case the supply is not exhausted...