Word: voided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council's recommendation: the proposed Center speaks for itself. As a memorial, it would be highly fitting in an age devoted to positive work and play; and as a badly needed addition to the University, it would complement Harvard's academic and social facilities and fill a gaping void...
...great one: Better Late, Bea Lillie's first British musical* since 1942. The show itself was not much. Sighed the News Chronicle: "... A thing of shreds and patches-witty shreds and blank patches." The blank patches were very, very blank, particularly an aching void called Give My Love to London...
...Anglo-American squabble over transatlantic commercial flying was apparently laid to rest last February by the Bermuda air agreement (TIME, Feb.11). But last week its ghost was walking. The Senate's Commerce Committee held that the agreement was illegal and void. Its reason: the State Department and Civil Aeronautics Board had no right to make international commitments; "such arrangements . . . should be regarded as treaties, subject to ratification by two-thirds vote of the Senate...
Tsunami follow any submarine earthquake which causes a fissure or crack in the earth's crust. When a part of the ocean bottom drops away or when there is an underwater landslide, water surges in from all sides to fill the void...
...years, a little English magazine called Horizon has come closer than anything in sight to filling the void left by the U.S.'s famed Dial (1880-1929) and T. S. Eliot's London Criterion (1922-39). Horizon's influence is out of all proportion to its 10,000 circulation...