Word: blanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then ECA needed a high-level expert to formulate and carry out its transport policy in Greece. Jim Glynn's application blank-embellished with a few more additions-was studded with so many achievements that ECA hired him on the spot at $12,000 a year and sent him to Greece. He did his usual competent job. But after five months, ECA suddenly told him his work was unsatisfactory and fired...
...seemed, had done some checking up on Jim's application blank, discovered Jim's little embellishments and charged him with making fraudulent statements. It wasn't that Jim hadn't done a bang-up job all the way. It was just about like Jim Glynn had always figured-no one would believe he could be a big-shot transportation executive without a college degree...
Most of the pictures on the walls looked like more or less distorted reflections of each other. Jackson Pollock's nonobjective snarl of tar and confetti, entitled No. 14, was matched by Willem DeKooning's equally fashionable and equally blank tangle of tar and snow called Attic. If their sort of painting represented the most vital force in contemporary U.S. art, as some critics had contended...
Then for the main part of the experiment, the students were given a blank answer sheet of the same type used on the College Boards, and asked to fill it out to conform with a sheet secretly filled out by those giving the test...
...acted at the suggestion of Frederick D. Houghteling '50, who reported to the Council Monday night on his suggested revision of the present rules. Haughteling said that he was "leaving a blank space in case anyone wants to insert an anti-discrimination clause...