Word: blot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first motive - "thumbsucking without the thumb" - is predictably Freudian, the second is quite practical. The sound waves produced by humming are far more effective than the low volume would indicate. This is because humming is a "purer" tone. "When a person hums, he can blot out most of the sounds of speech," Ostwald reports. "Many hum to themselves while concentrating on tasks, particularly if these involve abstract thinking or fine motor skills...
...course, maybe the Houses-to-be have been craftily named after four benefactors, Messrs. West, East, North and South. But if not, perhaps potential givers with nice-sounding names will think it worth a million or two to blot out these names of wind. Ted Nelson...
...youth of today in the face of the world crisis must learn to face and solve their own problems. Once they face foursquarely their own identity will they learn how to be useful citizens in a troubled world. The propagation of the ideas of The Section Man is a blot on the history of the CRIMSON that will be hard to erase. Mr. Queensly's book is that rare thing--a truly subversive book...
India's newspapers grumbled at this "blot upon our escutcheon," and demanded "a clean and speedy sweep of this evil" from Indian soil. It may not be easy: most slave-owning NEFA tribesmen firmly believe that, no matter how wicked a man may be, his riches will accompany him from this life to the next. Thus, if he owns slaves in this world, he will have slaves to attend him in heaven...
...think that the Business Board constitutes an absolutely invaluable business experience, you are likely to be dead wrong. As an organization through which well over $100,000 is annually circulated; as an advertising medium that can, if it likes, reject advertisements, and need never to turn to that foul blot on the narrow lapel of a businessman's dignity, the 'suck ad," for sustenance--the Crimson is a king in a rainy country, a monarch inthe city of Cambridge...