Word: voided
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loyalty to me in difficult times I shall never forget. ... The coup d'état which Reza Khan has just committed against the constitution and against my dynasty was made at the point of the bayonet. . . . Against it I have raised a vehement and solemn protest. I consider as void and without value all present and future acts of his government. I maintain all my rights and those of my dynasty to the throne of Persia, which, by the grace of God, I hold according to the fundamental laws of my country's constitution...
...freedom of speech, and the same Constitution which gives Congress power to enact those articles forbids its passing any law abridging that freedom. The right of freedom of speech is undoubtedly guaranteed by the Constitution, and if the 96th Article of War abridges that right, it is unconstitutional and void. It becomes a question, then, whether the Army and the War Department are governed by the Constitution, or whether they are at liberty to ignore its' provisions...
...does not definitely appear which of these versions is the correct one. The Grand Master of the Masonic Order in Italy, Signor Torrigiana, has issued orders from Rome that all Masonic lodge meetings and activities are to cease throughout Italy "until the law abolishing secret societies shall be made void...
...attempt to fill the void occasioned by the decay of religion by adapting the present system of distribution to include a course in either psychology, philosophy, or social ethics, or a new course combining the three and by organizing a new science course in each of the major departments of science, which, in addition to giving the laws of nature, should seek to explain them in terms of philosophy. Such courses would be given jointly by members of the science departments and the department of philosophy, and would satisfy adequately the spirit of the science requirement...
Thus spake the Lord to Moses. Last week, in the dimness of innumerable U. S. tabernacles, the shofar* sounded, reminding the Jews that the world was created by God out of void and a howling darkness 5,686 years ago. The horn rang at sundown, and at that hour candles, sombre and fierce, like thin yellow hands up-pointed in prayer, shone in the synagogues and wagged incongruously above the mahogany grain of apartment breakfast-room suites where prosperous Jews kept the feast of Rosh Hashonah (the New Year), after their own fashion. Telegraph wires crackled with messages of good...