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...Stopped naught by rain, or rusty nail...
...Boston City Council fact-finding hearing on the possible purchase of the Boston Arena came to almost naught yesterday because of the absence of members of the Garden-Arena Corporation...
...disposal of German New Guinea, which the Anzacs had captured. Said the President, eying the little man solemnly: "Mr. Prime Minister of Australia, do I understand your attitude aright? If I do, it is this: that the opinion of the whole civilized world is to be set at naught. This conference, fraught with such infinite consequences to mankind for good and evil, is to break up, with results that might be disastrous to the future happiness of 1,800 million of the human race, in order to satisfy the whim of 5,000,000 people in the remote southern continent...
Sheriff Reid, the judge added, had "naught to blame but himself" for printed charges that he had concealed official records from newsmen to keep them from checking gamblers' records; the evidence indicated that he had done just that. As the judge read on, the startled sheriff and district attorney stalked angrily out of court. Editor Ken Dixon had not only won his battle in court. Since the case started, gambling has been closed tight in Calcasieu Parish...
...done naught...