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Word: voided (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Visibility one-eighth mile, ceiling 500 ft., ice forming on wings and tail." Hallgren did not hear Chicago order him to turn back to St. Louis. He felt his plane settling groggily, looked for a landing place. When the white ground reached up for him out of the white void, he flipped off his ignition to prevent a fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Farmer's Find | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

...more immediate interest to bridge enthusiasts are the figures on distribution expectancy. Run-of-the-mine players who feel "safer" in a suit bid than at no-trump, like to pick up hands containing long suits studded with honors, short or void suits representing ability to ruff. If the cards are shuffled so that a truly random arrangement results, a player should get a 6-card suit every six hands, a 7-card suit every 28 hands, a singleton every three hands, a void suit every 20 hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: I58,753,000,000 to 1 | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...straighten out the city's muddled finances Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia had sent to the State Legislature an emergency economy bill giving him temporary blanket power to reorganize New York City's government, to fix salaries arbitrarily, to declare null & void any provisions of the city charter which conflicted with his program. Occupied with fighting opposition from Tammany legislators at Albany, he was not prepared to be stopped in his bold career by a high-minded Governor. As everyone knows, Democrat Herbert Henry Lehman is the great and good friend of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Very sick (appendectomy) last autumn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Lehman v. LaGuardia | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

...Eliot House was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the front of Eliot House. And the spirit of Lowell moved upon Eliot House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "And it Was So" | 10/14/1933 | See Source »

Embellished by startling success in World Series predications, Fates once more consent to breathe aside veil that covers future. Gazing into void I see esteemed friend John Harvard once more making a Lane through all opposition and Lockeing the score with a Well-made pass. Wildcats realize this, for New Hampshire Vaughnteth not itself, nor doth it expect to run Wilde. They may even be Moody at the end of the game, as is won't be a Haphey day if their end of the score is Leen. Humbly suggest Harvard will keep New Hampshire side of scoreboard pure White...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey, (SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: ORIENTAL PROGNOSTICATOR PREDICTS WILDCAT TAMING | 10/14/1933 | See Source »

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