Word: nil
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Clark's ruling, however, produced resounding results far beyond Wantage. His was the first Federal Court opinion invalidating the 18th Amendment. It raised new or forgotten points of law and constitutional policy. It "amazed" the Drys, "delighted" the Wets. Though its immediate and practical effects on Prohibition were nil, it started a nationwide discussion of fresh judicial phases of the question. Judge Clark did not come to his momentous conclusion unaided. Local attorneys in the Sprague case were joined by able New York lawyers-Selden Bacon, Julius Henry Cohen, Daniel Florence Cohalan-who since 1927 have been attempting...
Only one thing could stop the battle now: La Garde Republicaine. Summoned on the double, these elaborately uniformed guardsmen, many of them youths of France's first families, dashed in to sepa rate their elders, restored order in five minutes. Result of the fight: nil, since all important combatants walked off substantially unhurt...
Convening last week the Saxon Diet (State Legislature) reacted sharply to Fascist Adolf Hitler's success in winning millions of votes by "impossible promises" to secure reduction of Germany's Reparation debt to nil, etc. (TIME, Sept...
...oppressed Orthodox Jews in Europe With the late great Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) it became concrete (creation of a National Jewish Home in Palestine secured by public law), and economic (Jews as a group were to finance their impoverished coreligionists). The religious aspect of Zionism has become practically nil. Formerly many influential Jews opposed Zionism. Now few do.* Zionism became a political actuality during and after the World War when the Allies to gam Jewish support in Central is well as Allied countries, promised Zionists to give them political rights in Palestine. Jews expected that that would give them...
...official figures show that the exports of tractors for October 1929, amounted to £296,000 ($1,438,560), against nil in the previous year,.while for the ten months ended October last the figure...