Word: naughts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congress must be obeyed," declared Justice McReynolds in rendering the majority opinion from which dissented Justices Holmes, Brandeis and Stone. Justice Butler, as a onetime railroad attorney, did not participate in the case. The Court's ruling set at naught the valuation placed by the I. C. C. on the O'Fallon, relieved the road of paying to the U. S. a share of its profits on that valuation and sent rail stocks jubilantly sky-rocketing in Wall Street. C. & O. spurted up 23 points...
After eight years of preparation, 21 days of trial, 590,000 words of testimony and 14 hours of deliberation by the jury, the Manhattan trial of Sir Joseph Duveen came, last week, to naught. Grey as the dawn in which they appeared, the jurymen reported a deadlock. Justice William Harman Black of the New York Supreme Court thanked and discharged them...
...eard the deb a-callin', you won't never 'edd naught else...
...secondary was particularly alert and quick to sense the hidden ball and fake plays for which the Pennsylvania attack is famed. The line men too were rarely drawn out of position a fact which shows that the experience gained in two hard contests this fall has not gone for naught. Both team A and team B took part in this session and the seconds were only slightly less effective than the regulars...
...long passes which it is expected the Big Green will uncork tomorrow were tried time and again and more often than not they were successful. Unless the backs improve in this department there is serious danger that whatever good work the line may do will go for naught, as was the case last week against the Cadets...