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Word: blanked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...headlined by Lew Ayres and Maureen O'Sullivan and notable chiefly for the way in which Actor Burgess Meredith, hailed three years ago as the Hamlet of 1940. belies his reputation by bringing to his impersonation of a Harvard senior the same mannerisms he used when spouting very blank verse in Winterset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

Romantics by the score have painted dreamy pictures of Elizabethan life. For a realist to attempt it means disturbing innumerable hallowed myths-principally the vague one that Shakespeare, Marlowe and their fellows said ods bodikins and talked blank verse in the Mermaid Tavern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tense Life | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...remaining unexplored parts of the world is a long-standing blank spot on the map of Alaska. Thanks to the mass of air photographs and data brought back by the Harvard University-National Geographic Society Alaska Expedition even this spot will not be filled with its quota of geographical features...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 11/23/1938 | See Source »

...watchers serve more as a threat than anything else. The tabulators are loss inclined to temptation when they are present, particularly on a referendum on which many blank ballets were east which could easily be filled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPONSORS FOR PLAN E GUARD AGAINST FRAUD | 11/9/1938 | See Source »

...Last. At his right sat a Philosophy professor. Vag had taken Phil. A way back in his sophomore year. Now he didn't even remember what epistemology was. What was that course about? Oh, yes, Descartes. "I think, therefore I am!" That had been very simple. Spinoza... Spinoza... complete blank. Hume: If one billiard ball strikes another at a velocity of...Oh, well, who was on his left?... Directly opposite sat the House Master. God! This was the center of the table and sitting on the Master's right, close enough for Vag to kick in the shins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/28/1938 | See Source »

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