Word: invaliding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years of the donor's death. The question the Court posed itself was whether it was reasonable to presume that all gifts made within six years of death were made in contemplation of death to evade the tax. The majority declared that the assumption was unreasonable, the law invalid. Justices Holmes, Brandeis and Stone dissented, saying the decision on reasonableness should rest with the state legislature...
...Court likewise held invalid a law of Washington which was used in quarantining the state against alfalfa shipments (which it was feared might bring in the alfalfa weevil), because the Court held that the state law conflicted with an Act of Congress placing the power to establish such quarantines with the Secretary of Agriculture...
Died. Dr. and Mrs. Aaron Ember, their six-year-old invalid son and Mrs. Ember's maid; at Windsor Hills, near Baltimore, when their house burned to the ground. Dr. Ember was Professor of Egyptology at Johns Hopkins University. Two children survive. Life-work manuscripts were lost...
Though only a shy, mouselike toe peeps now and again from beneath Lanice's decorously billowing hoopskirts, within, untrammeled by its stays, waits a supple birch-sliver body. Lanice's mother, a vivid little chestnut-blonde, ran from her professor-husband with a precocious invalid student, to Italy...
...pointed out that the only constitutional ground which Madams Corrigan and Curtis had for maintaining that the property owners' agreement was invalid, was that it was contrary to the Fifth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments...