Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years after her husband's death, Sarah Althea Terry one day walked out on San Francisco's streets in a ballroom dress at high noon, eyes blank, lips babbling as they continued to babble until pneumonia stopped them forever last week...
...Ottawa last week, Canadian M.P.'s from the West demanded to know whether the Dominion Government has given or is about to give the United Kingdom "a blank check which might be filled in with the lives of young Canadians." This emotional question Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King quietly and flatly answered thus: "There are no commitments and no understandings in the nature of commitments between this Government and the Government of Great Britain or any other Government...
With a view to the advantages which can be gained from the combination, Mr. Russell T. Sharpe has made several changes in the method of application for scholarships which promise to result in a more equitable distribution of available funds. He has composed an application blank which is at once simpler and more comprehensive than the old-one. In particular, the revised blank requires the names of two instructors and of directors of extra-curricular activities who know the applicant, rather than the single name of the man's tutor. Information from these persons and from personal interviews with...
...testified that encephalitis had impaired his memory, he sadly admitted that he could recall nothing about his estimated $60,000 estate. Judged incompetent, he struggled to his feet nervously extending a paper, stammered: "Gentlemen, I want you to hear me." The judge took the paper, saw that it was blank...
...Anderson's verse which give value to "The Masque of Kings". But for the most part it lies smothered beneath a flood of words, words which for the most part are not very beautiful and mean very little. Mr. Anderson seems to have a fatal facility for blank verse, a mechanical dexterity which has here betrayed him. The tense hardness that his verse achieved at times in "Winterest" is missing; his lines are flabby and prosaic...