Word: voided
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Void Ballots...
...Sinclair concession was made, the Bolshevik Government was making recognition overtures to the Japanese Government and that Japanese troops were occupying Northern Sakhalin, which accounted for the inability of the Sinclair interests to work its concession. There is nothing to prove collusion between the Japanese and the Bolsheviki to void the Sinclair concession; but, in the Russo-Japanese treaty (Protocol B., Article 1) signed Jan. 20, 1925, it was expressly provided that Japanese were to receive "concessions for the exploitation of 50% of the area of every oil field in Northern Sakhalin. . . ." This, in effect, annulled half the Sinclair concession...
...undergraduate's vantage point--lies in a too narrow conception of education. A very large school of educators will be found to agree with "The Old Dog" in regarding education as a process analagous to the charging of a storage-battery. You start with a certain capacity, or void, in the form of a student and proceed to fill it with facts, all neatly catalogued and arranged; and if the capacity is large enough, and if you fill it full enough, the result is an educated...
This travesty on the Little Theatre Movement by George Kelly has been rightly called a satirical farce. The author plays all the farcical elements to the limit and then ventures into the great void of laughter beyond. And actors and audience follow him with an uproarious abandonment...
...best universities still refuse to each Hair-cutting, Fishing and Undertaking," says Mr. Leacock. To be sure, this is a great lack, but one must not expect too much at once. Certain institutions which call themselves colleges are doing all they can to fill the void. Perhaps the problem of the colleges would be clarified by answering the conundrum: "When is a college not a college...