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Word: blanking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Green Room's college cast offered a smooth, intelligent performance. If they often Jacked force, and could almost never suggest the dark corners of the Renaissance soul, they were seldom stagy, seldom obscure, spoke blank verse with distinction. Broadway might have done better, but Broadway refuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Braver than Broadway | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...labor unions so that now French laborers are forced to work overtime for no extra pay and cannot effectively protest against either conditions or wages-all these things and others have caused widespread and deep-seated distrust. The Premier's argument last week that he must have a blank check from Parliament because "democracies find themselves in the presence of other regimes which can act rapidly and in secret" had a cold reception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Blank Check | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...both. But the French press, except for sly references to Anastasie, is not even allowed to point out the censor's errors. Parisians are still chuckling over a critical essay: titled "Censure et Propa-gande" that appeared lately in L'Europe Nouvelle. The whole article was a blank, and bore the legend: "Censure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Anastasie | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...measure of the personal independence she was to demand, the young Queen refused point-blank to allow her Prime Minister to write her first public speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Worried Queen | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...throne 300 years ago they were "provincial nobodies." They managed, in their time, to produce three colossal figures (Alexander I, Catherine the Great, Peter the Great), one kind man (Alexander II, who freed the serfs, was killed by a bomb). The rest were monsters, comic grotesques, mental cases, or blank nonentities: calf-eyed Mihaïl, who died of melancholia; Elizabeth, the hard-drinking, nominally virgin queen whose beer-barrel figure enabled her to pass off her pregnancies as "indigestion"; infantile, impotent Peter III and insane Paul, "as ugly and misshapen as an abortion," both hideously murdered; Nicholas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Broad Russian Nature | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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