Word: voided
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...laugh at the void which is culture...
...noticed that Professor C. K. Webster was going to speak on Palmerston and the Eastern Question at 10 o'clock this morning in Harvard 3. When he tried to think what he really knew about Palmerston, the humble writer of this column found himself at the edge of a void, or rather an abyss in which he could see only one object. This was an image of a man who somewhat resembled the Vagabond's great-grandfather attired in the traditional costume of John Bull. This was his childhood impression of the great British prime minister; it is the impression...
Cursed is this man and void...
...Leviathan one day last week, Otto Hermann Kahn, patron of Art, briefly announced the designation of Benjamin Wistar Morris and Joseph Urban as the two architects who will plan the new Metropolitan Opera House. He indicated that he hoped the performances of the architects would be as void of modernism as opera itself...
...chest may be considered to be a keg of two compartments (pleural cavities), each containing a lung. As each lung expands, it fills its compartment; as it contracts, it leaves a void. Tubercular lungs struggle to fill their pleural compartments; they get no opportunity to rest and heal the sores that tuberculosis germs are eating into their tissues. If one lung could cease its transference of oxygen from the air to the blood and carbon dioxide from the blood to the air, if it could get a rest, it might heal up. The operation of artificial pneumothorax does give...