Word: voided
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sweringens refused to admit the legality of the Taplin proceedings (which included declaring that all acts of the directors since May, 1927 were null and void). Designating the Taplin meeting as a "rump"* meeting, they got an injunction preventing the Taplin officers from occupying Wheeling offices and especially from examining Wheeling records...
...result of Friday's match in which Harvard defeated Pennsylvania, the Crimson players advanced themselves in the ranking of the College Golf League, but Saturday's defeats make their chances of winning the league championship void...
...primary cause of cables breaking down in service is due to the fact that small voids or air spaces are formed within the paper insulation. With present methods of manufacture, these voids appear to be inevitable. When such voids form, a minute electric discharge takes place within the void; that is, small electric arcs form, and the molecules of air find themselves in an electric field which causes them to attain high velocities. This effect is called ionization. The ions then impinge on the paper and oil, and have the effect of a rapid and continual bombardment. They not only...
...test case the Berlin Labor Court held that any clause or agreement barring servants from Aufzüge or Fahrstüle is void, and branded all such prohibitions as "obsolete and anti-social." This ruling may be an opening wedge to compel landlords and employers to provide better living conditions for domestic servants. Even in modern Berlin apartment buildings, backstairs are unlighted, and despite the long German winter, maids' rooms are nearly always without heat...
Radioactive dust and emanations entered his system. They attacked his bones, prevented his marrow from making red blood cells. Aplastic anemia developed. Sojourn in high altitudes and 13 blood transfusions were useless. To void the radium that was in him would require, he once figured, 3,520 years. But eight years was all that he lived after he discovered what was wrong with...