Word: blots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perplexed and questioning, a sad Ibis fluttered back and forth along the Bow Street clothing-store annex with quizzical eye and mournful heart. "Boola, boola," the Blot sobbed; "no more Dutch white lead tiles for sale, but we're expecting a supply of Gothic arches from New Haven shortly...
...Whose only regimental blot is their surrender at Yorktown...
This was not the fault of the war, although this was the blackest of weeks for the enemy on both sides of the world. The steady flow of huge headlines-Cherbourg, Saipan, Vitebsk-could neither blot the Republican convention off the front pages nor out of Americans' minds...
...Netherlands. The Nazis evidently intended to assimilate the country completely, blot out Dutch nationality. Industry is almost wholly under German control. State expenditures have almost trebled-to pay Germany's occupation costs and export extortions...
...dean and acting president. Despite his own training at Cornell (B.A. 1927) and Harvard (Ph. D. 1936), he is a devoted small-college man. He believes that institutions of Wesleyan's size (about 700 students in peacetime) supply a social education that the big university has "tended to blot out." Says he: "We must . . . provide a ferment in American society . . . creating a sound social leadership...