Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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GALSWORTHY (John) In Chancery. One blank fly-leaf missing...
Then John Marshall Harlan, shrewd young attorney for the Wendel estate, went to work on the Morris claim. He tore it to shreds. Publishers of the Bible from which the "1876" marriage license blank was torn testified that it could not have been procured earlier than 1913. Handwriting experts showed the flyleaf will to be a bungling fraud. Contemporary evidence proved that Mr. Wendel was not in Dundee in 1901 or in Manhattan in 1906. On St. Patrick's Day, 1908, Claimant Morris was working in an Arizona copper mine. In 1909, said Pullman Co., the Buffington...
...altogether wrong in his opinions, nor was he downed by his adversary, but that the result of the contest was to establish the fact that the Latin meters cannot be followed in our language. "Moreover," continued Professor Eliot, "the great achievement of Elizabethan verse is its development of blank verse, which it originated. The controversy derives its main importance, however, from the fact that it is one instance of a struggle between national and foreign elements; it is from this that our greatest literature derives its inspiration...
...undergraduate publication, the "Harvard Critic," which was announced yesterday, may well come to fill a blank in the College's literary roster. The "Critic" will serve mainly as a month piece for opinions concerning Harvard policy and educational trends, as well as national affairs, a function which no existing local publication taken as the sole basis of its endeavors. The periodical will contain articles by men beyond the narrow pale of Harvard life, a field until recently untrod by undergraduate editors. The aim of the Critic's board will be to express all shades of opinion, and will shun...
...Columbia and New York Universities. Socialist electors will appear on the ballots of 44 States. Last week they were ruled off in Oklahoma because the party had failed to poll a legal sufficiency at the last election. A new Florida election law makes room for only two parties. Also blank of Socialist electors are Nevada and Idaho ballots...