Word: invalidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...written or oral agreements. This has been going on not merely for years but for generations, and usually not only the Japanese but also the Chinese refuse to divulge the texts. It was with reference to this enormous quantity of Oriental secret pledges, which the Occident regards as morally invalid because exacted under duress, that the Imperial Japanese Government last week issued the following urbane and reasoned 550 word official statement which would not deceive a Vermont woodchuck or a Georgia possum: "The present Sino-Japanese affair originated in an unwarranted attack by Chinese forces on Japanese garrison troops legitimately...
...Rightist Spain's stamps, which are simply labeled CORREOS (MAIL), some of which bear the portrait of Queen Isabella, were declared invalid by little Costa Rica this week, but are accepted in the rest of the postal union. *Besides the standard, pre-Revolution red-barred yellow flag of Spain and the flags of sympathetic Germany, Italy and Portugal, hotel? and public squares in Rightist Spain punctiliously display, to the astonishment of most patrons, the blue and white banner with the parrotlike bird of Guatemala...
...Illinois' last-minute licensees tainted: many wished to avoid the added expense (up to $25) of the medical tests; others were shy or afraid of the bloodletting needle: others wished the old form of license since it is good indefinitely whereas the new antivenereal disease license becomes invalid after 30 days...
Married. Don Alfonso, Count of Covadonga, 30, invalid onetime heir to the throne of Spain; to Marta Rocafort, handsome daughter of a Havana dentist; in Havana...
...pump. Last week everything was in order. The respirator containing the young man was rolled into an elevator of the Union Medical College Hospital. The electric extension cord to the motor was disconnected. The elevator dropped to the ground level where another extension cord restarted the motor. When the invalid recovered his breath, he was rolled onto a motor truck, where a special gasoline motor was generating electricity. The respirator was connected to this mobile supply, and the truck proceeded to a special train which Fred Snite Sr. had hired. A baggage coach contained a gasoline-driven dynamo...