Word: blot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...treatise on Franklin yesterday an error here and there cropped out to relieve the dullness of the tale. Professor Matthiessen will speak at 10 o'clock in Harvard 6--not Harvard 26 as was previously given forth. Also it was pointed out, by one of those cavilling materialists who blot the world, that the Vagabond at one point said the lecture was "today" and at another with equal calm stated that it was to be "tomorrow." He could make adequate rebuttal, but he won't. Did not Keats write of "Stout Cortez?" Are you not answered, oh ye of little...
...centuries of punishment that began last week marked one of the last stages in a campaign that began in May 1926 when Benito Mussolini decided that the secret terrorist organization known as the Sicilian Mafia, the "Black Hand," was a blot on the name of Italy. He commis- sioned Fascist Prefect Cesare Mori of Palermo to eradicate...
Thus with painful candor did Mr. Farrell footnote Mr. Schwab's eloquence and the footnotes became the greater news. Even the painful candor, however, could not entirely blot out the memory of the Schwab eloquence: "There are many signs of stirring in our economic life. . . . We want to keep pulling for the shore. . . . We can be cheered by the knowledge that 'the tide is coming.' " In darker years han 1931 Mr. Schwab had said the same things and he had been right. But to make his prophecies come true again what seemed most to be needed...
...cancelling the meaningless distinction between its A.B. and S.B. degrees by making the arts degree dependent on the field of concentration rather than on knowledge of the ancient languages. Such a change need not imply a denial by the University of the value of studying the classics. It would blot out the stigma of official favoritism which, by arousing an instinctive antagonism, has probably hindered rather than promoted a true appreciation of ancient literature and culture...
...thought he had found one. He thought he had caught Dantes Bellegarde, the Haitian Minister in Washington, saying that the Haitian fort for capturing which he (Butler) won the Congressional Medal of Honor, was a fictitious fort. Wrathfully General Butler appealed to the Navy Department to have this ugly blot wiped from his record...