Word: voided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Void Filler...
...first-line critics have contributed little except a few quarantine signs'. Those signs, mostly ignored, warned generally against what Aldous Huxley calls "that doughy, woolly, anodyne writing [which] ... we read because we suffer when we have time to spare and no printed matter with which to plug the void . . . because the-second nature of habituated readers abhors a vacuum. . . ." That readers continue to put their faith in publishers' ads rather than critics' warnings was well evidenced by the case of the fat historical romance, And So-Victoria, which since publication ten weeks ago has been filling reader...
...love best to realize the dream of the daring seaman who was bold enough, heretical enough, to proclaim in the face of all existing dogma that the earth was round. He smiled, too, as he thought of his wanderings in the American waters--then as unknown as a black void and filled with infinite terrors, and the explorations, and the final failures and ultimate defeat of that gallant seafarer. He smiled, thinking of the way the sea often wins out against the boldest plans of men, of the mystery of the sea that made men still love to sail...
Undergraduates who are competing for Rhodes Scholarships this year must file their applications by Saturday, November 6, and are reminded in a communication from the Dean's office that the applications are void on that date if they have not received the endorsement of this University...
...income in 1920, the first lecture series was given on "Real Estate Fundamentals." It drew six students. By 1934, 376 capitalists flocked to hear Professor Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, fresh from the U. S. Treasury, lecture on inflation possibilities. Because the last year has exposed a gaping void in Capital's education-how to deal with labor organization-Harvard announced that it would devote this year's Leatherbee lectures to "Problems in Industrial Relations...