Word: nil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Their value is apparently nil when they are 'unhappy...
Admittedly intended by the Actors Equity as an economic measure, the Dickstein bill is one of the more ridiculous attempts in recent years at the perversion of the legislative function to private ends. In the first place, as an economic measure the bill's validity is practically nil, since the present number of foreign actors in the United States is surely not so enormous as to hinder the possible employment of local talent now out of work. Even as a bit of private weaseling the bill is pitifully transparent. On the one hand, it is a sop to the actors...
Idaho Copper went into receivership in 1929, was pulled out, then slipped in again in 1932. Its stock last sold in 1931 at 2/5 of 1? a share. Its production is nil. Colombia Emerald has some emeralds but its mine in the Department of Boyaca, Colombia is closed and its shares were lately quoted...
...with sanitary facilities which can best be described as barbaric. The gentleman's rooms, for instance, consist of a twenty-foot fence with three-foot wings on each end; for them, and, presumably, for the ladies', the drainage arrangements, other than those provided by Mother Earth, are nil. This state of affairs, obviously, possesses certain more or less serious drawbacks; among them are its potentialities as a seventh heaven for bacteria...
...Director of Debate, and the setting aside of a permanent meeting place for the Council, the Corporation met yesterday morning, and then adjourned until Monday, November 27. The University News Bureu, while not yet in possession of the official minutes, stated that the results of the meeting were "practically nil." Reached at his office, Charles P. Curtis '85, a member of the Corporation, said that the subjects petitioned by the Council had not been brought up at all. Francis W. Hunnewell '02, secretary of the Corporation, declined either to confirm or to deny this statement...