Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...returned his questionnaire blank except for the cryptic remark that he was ashamed to be associated with a class which distributed such "stuff" remains the hero of the piece. Questionnaires are harmless articles, fun to fill out. They only become dangerous instruments when taken too seriously...
Septimus Winner was a plain man who, on the side, wrote blank verse for which he had no talent, worried discreetly over his drunken father. He was also responsible for 200 texts on how to play instruments, 2,000 piano and violin arrangements. His brother Joseph determined to write song hits too, resoundingly succeeded once with Little Brown Jug, Don't I Love Thee. As Septimus was more prolific, so was his end more picturesque. On a fine November day in 1902 he attended the dedication of a new building for his alma mater, the old High School, shook...
Every member of the Class of 1940 was asked to return a separate blank for each course he was taking. The ballots turned in cover practically every course open to Freshmen and many advanced courses being taken by Yardlings...
...outward appearance of Sever Hall has frequently been commented upon as depressing, but such a remark merely shows that the observer has failed to walk inside. Blank, dingy corridors and stairway walls enlivened by heating pipes of dubious aesthetic value, and by the silhouettes of James Warren Sever and his wife Elizabeth. A cheery coat of paint would add immeasurably to the attractiveness of the University's largest classroom building...
...schools for the next two years? There was a record of the House's sending the bill to the Senate with an amendment, of the Senate's killing that amendment and sending the bill back to the House with another. After that the records were blank. Some legislators assured the Governor that the bill had been finally passed. Others said it had not. Nobody seemed very sure. Sternly the Governor announced that if, after a meeting of the whole Assembly called for this week, a special session has to be called to correct an error like that...