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Word: blotter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Complying with a request from the hall, Cambridge police decided not to list the robbery on their blotter. This was done, according to Miss Garfield, in the hope that the thief would return the stolen bonds and avoid the necessity for further police intervention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Briggs Hall Girls Searched After $133 Dormitory Theft | 12/8/1949 | See Source »

...added that the night clerk promised to tell police about the call. As of last night, the Cambridge blotter had no record of the incident, but it was impossible to determine whether the night clerk had failed to call or whether the whole thing was a publicity stunt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Maniac' Threat, $1,000,000 Keep Actress Luce on Toes | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...police blotter for the evening merely lists a "disturbance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hill Takes Case to Superior Court | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

This archaeological device looks like a porous blotter. When forced down on an inscription it takes a reverse copy of the characters underneath...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frye Cliff Walks, Parlays Persia Hunch into Winner | 1/7/1949 | See Source »

...jabberwock he is hunting, a college fraternity, last seen some years ago at Williams College, left a stain upon this editor's blotter which must be purged by vitriol . . . Hurling three columns of ketchup at the group which inferiorated him . . he retires from the field, having given space long filled by eminent philosophers and editors to a personal and trivial hurling of tomatoes in the essence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Anti-Semitic Twist? | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

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