Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pull the sledge. One day he fell through the ice, twisted his knee. Starving, he killed a dog, ate it. became deathly sick. Two days later he reeled into an Eskimo village where trappers from Baker Lake found him. First thing Adventurer Irwin wanted last week was a telegraph blank. Said he: "I guess Mother is worried about me. Mail has been a bit uncertain...
First, anti-aircraft batteries would fire blank shots. If these were disregarded, French combat planes would take the air, surround the German peepers and try to shoo them back into Germany, "making every effort to avoid collision and in no case pursuing beyond the frontier...
...Varsity eight gave the Tiger crew, hailed as a speedy bunch of watermen after their spectacular victory over the Pennacs, all it could handle in the mile and three quarters race while the Jayvees and Freshmen put up sterling performances on the same course to blank both Tech and Princeton...
...content with that, however, Mr. Andrews proceeded to turn clerks in grocery stores handling Seminole toilet paper into Hupp salesmen. Each clerk was given a book of blank introductions to local Hupp dealers, asked to fill in the name of any grocery customer interested in either the Seminole contest or a new Hupmobile. If the local dealer later sold a Hupmobile to a grocery customer, the store clerk received $5 from Hupp. If twelve of the store clerk's prospects bought Hupmo-biles, he received a Hupmobile free. With Seminole planning bigger & better contests, Super-Salesman Andrews...
Panic is written not in blank verse which Author MacLeish believes has "all but killed the use of poetry in the theatre" but in a line of five accents falling as the sense suggests rather than as the rules of prosody require. Example...