Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inch steel bearings loaded into the muzzle of each piece are fired by 22 calibre blank cartridges which load at the breech. Cylindrical lengths of steel fit inside the muzzle to regulate the muzzle velocity and ensure uniformity of range with all four guns...
Riders of the Sky contains mightier lines than these, but readers will be carried along rather than away by this narrative in reputedly blank verse...
With long-handled brushes and pots of paste, one group of bill posters hired by a Socialist political club and another group hired by a Rightist club went out into the gloom of Marseilles last week to slap their employers' respective opinions on the blank walls of the city. At the end of a street they met. Brushes went flying. Paste pots were spilled. Damp bundles of posters littered the ground. Pistols cracked in the half-light. By the time the breathless police arrived two men lay dead on the sidewalk, four others were seriously wounded...
...today. Now distinctly a member of the old guard, thrice crowned with the perishable bays of the Pulitzer Prize (1922, 1925, 1927). Robinson is by long odds the most respected living U. S. poet. In his 65th year this New England Browning still turns out a lengthy blank-verse narrative that seems sometimes garrulous but never silly; though his poetic fire is down to a low blue flame, it is not yet extinguished. Fed by no fiercely burning faith but well banked with the coke of agnostic irony, it may well flicker along through many another winter...
...compliment of popping into his limousine and riding as Council President 20 miles out to Comrade Litvinoff's village. He brought an invitation for Russia to join the League signed by 30 countries whose signatures M. Barthou had obtained. Comrade Litvinoff "telegraphed" Russia's acceptance on a blank which M. Benes stuffed into his pocket before dashing back to Geneva. President Benes convoked the Council. Then Poland, at M. Barthou's behest, was constrained to vote for Russia to receive a permanent Council seat as soon as the Assembly goes through the motions of voting the thoroughly...