Word: voided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...join any club or that he will not join any other club, and any such pledge or promise, whether originating in misunderstanding or otherwise, shall not be binding upon such undergraduates or upon any of the said clubs agreeing thereto, but shall be regarded by everybody as null and void and contrary to the spirit of this agreement...
...election Nov. 8. Through his onetime law partner and a nominal plaintiff, Mayor McKee went to court to void the Board's order, hold his job until Jan. 1, 1934. At stake was the question of whether the Mayor's office was legally vacant. Mayor McKee said he wanted to save the city the expense of a special election...
...accurate-only that Earth's lower atmosphere impedes the cosmic rays of their arrival from some source off Earth. It does not show what that source is-whether the rays originate from the destruction of matter in the stars (Jeans theory) or from creation of matter in the void between stars (Millikan theory). Certain aspects of cosmic rays suggest that they may be the newly recognized neutrons. Or they may be electrons drifting down from the heavily ionized, pulsating casing called the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer which at a distance of 100 mi. or so encloses Earth as a shell...
Insurance laws provide that a policy is void if the holder commits suicide within one year from the time he took out the policy. Because suicides have increased alarmingly since the Depression, big insurance companies are agitating to up the suicide clause to two years...
...eight days after the landing. Passenger Reiner sent ten messages to N.A. N. A. When he sued for payment at $500 per message the news agency offered in defense that Passenger Reiner had broken his promise to the airship operators, that his contract to send messages was morally void. Last week the New York State Court of Appeals upheld N. A. N. A.'s defense, passed lightly over the agency's part in the alleged "fraud & deceit" thus: "The plaintiff's complaint that the defendant treated him as he had treated others falls upon deaf ears...