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...been announced that all application for personal use will be fined. It will nowever, be necessary, to establish a draw by lot for all non-personal applications and to nil them as long as the tickets last. In no case will more than two tickets be allotted...
Political developments in Greece are temporarily nil, owing to the dengue fever as reported in TIME, Sept...
Those three words have been explained until their meaning in international law is perilously close to nil, but they are still three words, three resounding words. They will be understood by many U. S. voters as meaning NO MORE WAR. If they should ever come to have that meaning to all the peoples of the World, the explanations, reservations and quibbles of statesmen will fall away like husks and Frank Billings Kellogg will have triumphed indeed...
...Scotland Yard were understood to have seized the manifestos. The text of these leaflets, apparently designed to fire the sluggard peasants to action, began: "Rumanians, do not forget King Ferdinand's son! [i. e., Carol]." The likelihood that a Carol coupe de leaflets could have succeeded seemed nil to persons who observed that at Alba Julia the peasants carried and displayed pictures of King Mihai and Dowager Queen Marie, but none of Carol...
...open to much doubt. Indeed, the whole matter is so deeply shrouded in the dust of time, that no one, least of all the Vagabond himself, who was not present at the time, knows rightly whether, so to speak, the family jewels are paste or diamond. De mortuis nil nisi bonum. Very incidentally be it said, that the present Mr. Joseph Forecast belongs to a collateral branch of the family though it is not always well on Beacon Hill to admit that he comes from Shemokin...