Word: blotted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been raided two or three times within a week. ... The Crusaders of New York regret that they are unable, for a mechanical reason, to make up a similar map of Manhattan. ... So many dots would be required on it that the re sult would be merely a large blot...
...repudiations as trustworthy ... it may be only just and right to consider . . . such witnesses in the case of Billings, just as I should desire to do in the case of Mooney. ... If [Mooney] was innocent of this particular crime, to keep him in prison would be an ineffaceable blot upon the good name of the State...
...announcement made sooner might have avoided much that was unpleasant and unnecessary, but it is not for a mere mortal agency to question the motions of the spheres. The consolation that something is actually to be done effaces some of the scandal even if it does leave the blot of mismanaged press relations still in a conspicuous foreground...
...where such juvenile foolishness has never obtained, but where private enterprise on the part of undergraduates has annually inaugurated minor breaches of the academic peace. Up to four years ago the freshman-sophomore fence rush at Yale was as much of an institution as Derby Day, and the only blot on the otherwise fair record of the class of '26 was its pathetic gesture toward dignity in abolishing it. A few black eyes and a half dozen fist fights usually resulted on these happy occasions, but these could hardly justify the doing away with an event at once picturesque...
That Harvard's got a blot...