Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon as the snow has melted this spring, Harvard will be confronted with the novel spectacle of members of the Military Science courses squatting in holes in Soldiers Field, industriously firing ball bearings down the field by means of .22 calibre blank cartridges. This fact, proudly announced by the officers of the Unit, will make the Harvard group one of the foremost in the country, it having been selected for the honor of receiving the first battery of these guns...
...been lacking. The reason may be found in the constitution of the organization itself. At its inception, the right to declare war was expressly reserved for each of its members gathered, ostensibly, to outlaw it. Rampant, nationalisms cannot enter a suicide pact cheerfully unless their pistols are loaded with blank cartridges...
...loose a great "AaaOOf," as he plunged down on Bessie's head. "Come out!" screamed his eight assistants to Beatty. He flicked a whip at the cageful of pedestaled lions & tigers, took the chance of turning his back on them, jumped into the fight. Bang! Bang! Crack! His blank gun, whip and chair were useless. Assistants trained a suffocating fire-hose stream on the fighters. Sammy had his great jaws deep in Bessie's throat. Trainer Beatty grabbed a piece of iron pipe, wrapped his fingers in Sammy's mane, whacked him again & again over the head...
TIME, Jan. 22, top of col. 1, p. 17, says "he [Jesse Jones] tendered the Democratic National Committee his certified check in blank...
TIME erred; Jesse Jones's check was blank but not certified. When he learned how much other cities could bid for the 1928 Democratic Convention, Mr. Jones filled in the check for $200,000, landed the convention for Houston...