Word: invaliding
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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...
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...
...sold a story to Adventure and at once went home to become a novelist, which he speedily and notably did with Birthright, Fombombo, Red Sand. He is a sociologist only by indirection, an artist by accident. He is humorous. He dislikes work. Sound physically, he writes in an invalid's chair, between frequent naps...