Word: devoid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...actually so devoid of all knowledge of Holy Scripture as to suppose that there is not written in every Bible, in every language, the Tenth Commandment...
...SPLENDID SHILLING?Idwal Jones?Doubleday, Page ($2). "Happy the man who, devoid of cares and strife, in silken or in leathern purse retains the splendid shilling." So lied the old Welsh proverb. The girl, Danzel, wore the crusted coin?rapt from the empty ribs of a warrior?until there was a green stain on her breast. She made to give it to Guy Puncheon as he left Wales to let his half-gypsy blood race free and find their fortune. But it dropped between them, which may have been the omen. Guy found it, pouched it in silk against...
...piece of superlative insolence. It is so devoid of all common decency that similar conduct would bring a blush of shame to the brazen cheek of a first-class orthodox devil...
...most exciting part of a game rather devoid of thrills came in the first inning after one run had come in when Todd knocked a foul fly and the side was retired by a fluke triple play, Spouquardi to Radcliffe to Chalmers. It was in the first inning also that Huntington got four of its runs not scoring again until the seventh inning. FRESHMEN a.b. r. b.h. p.o. a. e. Miyokawa s.s. 3 3 2 1 0 1 Crotty c.f. 4 1 2 1 0 0 Donaghy 3b. 3 2 1 0 1 0 Durkee...
...almost every institution to disguised professionalism with its attendant evils of venality, hypocrisy, and lying. If the new league propers and maintains its program of not permitting college students upon its teams, certain changes would seem to be inevitable. Those youths gifted in the ways of football but apparently devoid of other talent who now go to college as the only means of attaining their athletic aim may henceforward be largely drawn into the more tempting and profitable professional field. College football would then slowly but surely decline into the relatively innocuous position of college baseball. In the distance...