Word: blanke
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...order to fill the usual first Sunday afternoon blank for the new Freshman, Brooks House will sponsor a tea from 4 until 6 o'clock that afternoon, and there will be movies shown at 3:30. All members of the Class of 1944 are invited to drop in and get to know their class-mates and proctors...
...Newfoundland, Bermuda, Trinidad) would lend themselves to development as even secondary fleet bases. But along its new defense line the U. S. can well place docks, tenders, other facilities for destroyers, submarines, patrol planes and protected anchorages for capital ships. President Roosevelt has in hand $200,000,000 of blank-check naval appropriations to spend as he likes, presumably will spend some of it on the bases...
British warships from Alexandria took another point-blank crack at Marshal Graziani's expeditionary base at Bardia. During the week, the Italians claimed extension of their drive into Kenya Colony to include Fort Polignac on Lake Rudolf in the north and Buna, a British air base 60 miles south of Moyale, one of the preliminary keys to the capture of Nairobi. The British retorted with a satisfying raid by the South African Air Force, which swooped on Mogadiscio, main port of Italian Somaliland, and blasted "hundreds" of military trucks assembled there for the Kenya push...
...Konoye was to have his way, it looked as if Cabinets might change no more in Tokyo, and the Premiership (or at least the powerful military shadow behind it) might become permanent-hereditary, like the Shogunate and like the Throne. The only man who ever dared say no point-blank to Emperor Hirohito happens to be Fumimaro Konoye. He refused the Imperial Command to form a Cabinet...
...Almost at the same moment as we bombed I felt a thump, and the aircraft lurched to the right. A pom-pom shell had gone through the starboard wing. Then another shell hit the same wing between the fuselage and the engine. They were firing pretty well at point-blank range. It was all over in a few seconds. The navigator called out. 'O.K. finish.' Then we turned away...