Word: voided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...become a favorite study of Hollywood dramas, but the psychological twist has generally been used as modern gloss to the standard boy-meets-girl glamor. In even the best of these, the deranged mind was merely held up as an interesting object to look at. "The Snake Pit," however, void of all hints of Hollywood glamor, achieves the startling effect of entering the diseased mind and reflecting its horrors and fears--its despair in groping in darkness for a ray of light. The mind is not exhibited but analyzed; the audience not merely understands it but feels its tensions. These...
Horse lovers mobilized to halt the slaughter. "But it will be hard," said one M.P. pressing for Parliament control of the market, "to make Strachey [Minister of Food] do anything to limit this revolting business. After all, a horse steak fills the void...
Harry Brunner lived in a circle of fear. He feared life and, when war came, feared death. He trembled before the burdens of love and dreaded the void left by its absence. Watching himself as if he were a diseased stranger, relishing his troubles as if they were sweet delicacies, he could never act simply or spontaneously. Even after he had seen action as a naval flyer in the Pacific, he knew that his real war had to be fought within himself...
...Oklahoma City last week, a three-judge federal court ruled "unconstitutional and void" a state law that barred Negroes from the University of Oklahoma's graduate school. The judges, all Oklahomans, did not outlaw segregation, but insisted that Negroes must have equal facilities without delay, or be taken in with white students...
Under the new rules, old book cards, hitherto renewed each term, are now void. New cards will be issued only to those veterans who have excess eligibility time which apply to tuition and books...