Word: fill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...halo of white heat, darkening outward to citron and orange. By dawn Van Gogh had lost interest in finishing his work. Next day he traded his Study by Candlelight, still wet, for five Japanese prints. The dealer, perhaps worried about getting his money's worth, had Vincent fill in the unpainted space with a quick sketch of one of the Japanese prints. The painting was sold to a cleric named Salles, then apparently passed through two more owners until, in 1917, it was sold to a café on the Rue des Petits Carreaux. What happened after that...
This year he is wrestling at 136, where he will oppose Dave Coombs, regular Crimson 121-pounder who is being forced to fill in for the injured Roger Wach. Except for one performance two years ago as a freshman 128-pounder, Coombs has never wrestled out of his class...
...servicemen will not fill out the necessary Veterans Administration forms in Memorial hall today, but at the office of the Counselor for Veterans in Weld Hall...
...police to issue new 1949 press cards-usually a routine procedure-they got a surprise. Last week, Harry S. Toy, the squat, eagle-beaked police commissioner who has talked darkly about a "Red revolution in Michigan," said that, to get a press card, every reporter would have to 1) fill out a form listing his press experience, and 2) swear that he was not a member of "any organization affiliated with the Communist Party or Communism...
This week Howard Hughes considered himself fortunate. He picked Damon as T.W.A. president to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of La Motte Cohu last June...