Word: voided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There were 1,570 books on politics, economics or current affairs, 794 juveniles and 3,775 technical and text books. Most notable was the year's flock of topical books, inspired by the war. Led by Rauschning's The Voice of Destruction, they swarmed informatively into the void once filled by pamphleteers...
...long as Britain holds out, Japan does not dare attempt much. . . . Constantly increasing material aid to Britain is the No. 1 route whereby Japan's threat to America can be rendered null and void...
...suing CORP. Objective of the suit: back in 1933, Hoppy had tried to escape the day of reckoning by inventing a so-called "Recap Plan" which stripped Co. of most of its assets, hid them in CORP. Now it is up to Co.'s trustee to void the Recap Plan, recover any assets that may be left after CORP.'S water has been squeezed...
Partly to preserve his recollections for posterity, partly to fill the void left by the death of his wife (to whom he was devoted), Berry Wall, 77, began to write (entirely from memory) his memoirs. When he died last spring they were still unpublished. This week they were published under the title Neither Pest Nor Puritan. To read them was like reading a Proustian novel written not by Proust, but by one of his vacuous, arrogant characters...
...London's Victoria Embankment, where he is trying to rally free Frenchmen to the cause of liberation, General de Gaulle took his death sentence lightly, declared: "I shall have a settlement of accounts with the men of Vichy after the British victory. I consider this act to be void...