Word: voided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Vienna the Nazi Arthur Seyss-Inquart whom Hitler by ultimatum had forced in last week as Chancellor of Austria (see p. 19). This stooge came only to hand over his country to the German Dictator, did so by officially declaring: "From today the Austrian people consider null and void Paragraph 88 of the Treaty of St. Germain which proclaims Austria's independence...
Purposing "to give the Senior Class a chance to decide what changes it wants," the recently organized Committee for Electoral Reform issued a statement last night in which it demanded "that the Student Council void all nominations, howsoever made, for the coming class elections...
Thus out of $6000 collected $22 was void. The result probably has some significance, social or other wise, and may even be charged with meaning, but Councilmen prefer to think it means that $22 was not received that should have been...
...vacuum tube, first detected by Edison during his experiments with electric light a half century ago, is that when two wires, one positively charged, and the other negatively, are inserted into a vacuum, and the negative wire or filament is heated, a current passes from the filament through the void to the positive terminal...
Should TIME desire a word to fill an apparent void in the language, a word with which to indicate a peculiar adaptability for being able to appear to advantage in a photograph, I would suggest a new departure in linguistic concoctions: euiconogenic. . . . Here in euiconogenic, then, TIME will find a word which plainly conveys but one meaning: "producing a likeness well...