Word: null
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...royal forest, and where swarms of U. S. art students now spend their summers trying to learn to paint landscapes, three black-hatted French judges sat down last week to try a notorious old case. On trial were Jean Charles Millet, pudgy grandson of the late great Jean null (The Angelus) Millet, and deaf Paul Cazot, charged with forging and selling at great prices an unknown number of presumptive Millet canvases...
...original Millet paints, and a supply of old canvases, which they bought at the Parisian flea market for two or three francs apiece. When the market for Millets ran low. they produced Monets, Sisleys, Pissarros. The forging of Millet paintings was greatly helped by the fact that old Jean null Millet was in the habit of signing his canvases with a copper stencil...
...doings are primarily emergency measures. And last week a Federal Judge in Birmingham, Ala. seriously questioned whether TVA's vast power schemes were really incidental to the development of waterways. If they were not incidental, then they were obviously unconstitutional and the heart of the Tennessee Valley experiment was null & void...
...apparent cogency have always carried a multitude with it, if only for a time. Inspired by the inherent goodness of all men and convinced of their possession of certain inalienable natural rights, a theory long since discarded by political thinkers, he postulated a theory of social contract, historically null and logically full of gaping flaws, but yet inspiring in its fervent trust and faith in the basic goodness of all mankind. A visionary and idealist he was without a forerunner or a model. Above all he was a describer of beauty--a describer of the passions of the human heart...
...flayed them for "seeing with the eyes of a poorly or falsely informed foreign world." Next day, in a suit to test Reichsbischof Müller's January decree on which he based his Protestant dictatorship, the Berlin High Court declared: "The decree undoubtedly is invalid, and thus everything is null and void that the Reichsbischof has done on the strength of the powers he has given to himself by a crass infraction...