Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York World, last week marched into President Roosevelt's office to keep an appointment for luncheon at the Presidential desk. The President, at work on a large official document, did not seem quite his usual cheerful self. Spotting the paper before the President as a Federal income tax blank, Mr. Swope calculated that under the revenue bill which the President had Congress pass last summer, the tax on Franklin D. Roosevelt's $75,000 salary could hardly figure out less than...
...Debated His Majesty's Government's "blank check armament program" (TIME, March 16), the House having to decide whether to vote approval of unlimited armament expenditure, with $1,500,000,000 understood to be the total provisionally favored by Stanley Baldwin...
Cover-to-cover readers grew a little tired of Poet Engle's almost invariable poem-scheme: a long rush of blank-verse rhetoric leading up to a short rush of lyrical finale. His gift of oratory sometimes led him on past the point of pleasure or even edification. By the end of his book. Poet Engle himself had grown a little tired...
Tutor's opinions should carry much weight in the awarding of scholarships, but at present methods of obtaining information from this source are so, inadequate as to render it useless. When a scholarship application is received, the candidate's tutor is sent a blank upon which to express his ideas concerning the individual; this blank consists of two short paragraphs, the substance of which is contained in these sentences: "It will help the committee on scholarships if you will send us on this sheet an estimate of Mr. So-and-So's ability, as well as your opinion...
...probably one of the dastards and not a regular army man. With the Empire cut off from the world as Japanese censors clamped down on cables and radio, the August Land of the Rising Sun or Dai Nippon (as Japanese poetically call their Empire) faced the World with a blank wall of sheer Mystery. In Washington the State Department, for all the erudition of its Far East Section, knew nothing for certain, was as much out of contact with Joseph Clark Grew as though he had been U. S. Ambassador to the Moon instead of Ambassador to Japan. The Department...