Word: blotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Founder Milton Reynolds ran a $26,000 investment into a profit of $1,558,608, after taxes, on sales of $5,674,329. But the ball-point pen, which Reynolds bragged would write for two years without refilling -and would also write under water-had squiggled some blots on this shiny record. Sample blot: of the 100,000 Reynolds pens sold by Manhattan's Gimbel Brothers, Inc. (TIME, Nov. 12), some 6,000 were returned because they did not work properly...
...concerned with two couples: a former soldier who kills his unfaithful wife; a former soldier whose wife had believed him dead, taken a lover, then run away when she learned her husband was still alive. The husband tracks her down, but even after confessing his own infidelity, he cannot blot out her sense of guilt and defeat. What largely changes her mind is the futile tragedy of the other couple...
...because no country can deal single-handed with cartels, the report also proposed that Canada's Government work hard for establishment of an international body, probably somewhere in the United Nations Organization setup, to blot out cartels forever...
...plane. Dixie proudly read Rear Admiral Frederick Sherman's "well done" over the loudspeaker, and congratulated his crew for its safety record. About that time a sailor who had dozed off on the struts under the No. 2 elevator fell overboard. Angry Dixie flushed brick-red at the blot on the Ti's record. When a destroyer picked up the sailor and returned him, Dixie got on the loud speaker again: "If anyone wants to see that smart young fellow, you can find him in the brig on bread and water." But Dixie softened...
...insincere Blot was a taunting the Jester, a new Jester without the tradition worship of the old masters. Light dawned in Ibis intellect: unwitting Lampy had bestowed the Eli sky-blue tint to creaking portals that shrieked their protest in hues of yellow. The bird groaned and returned to frustrated vigil...