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Word: voided (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defeat of it all overwhelmed him--to have to admit to some eager sophomore that he hadn't gotten a date for the game. So Saturday approached and arrived and Vag set off for the game with a pair of fake binoculars filled with bourbon to fill the void left by a date...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: The Prince and the Pauper | 11/19/1958 | See Source »

...could easily pick off the few that ran for office. Besides, many moderate Moslems seemed to feel that, if De Gaulle's government was eventually going to deal with the F.L.N., they should not appear as candidates in an election that the F.L.N. had condemned as "null and void...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Snag in Algeria | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...result of these and other charges, three Student Council members--Barringer, Ekpebu, and Chitranjan Kapur 60--signed a resolution last night demanding that the NSA referendum be considered null and void, and that another referendum be held within two weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Members See Violations in NSA Vote | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

...blooded and personally anarchic, Wolfe recoiled at the restrictions of New England morals. He imagined that the entire weight of false convention was pressing in upon him. The Boston social structure seemed meaningless, and its products void of emotion, and therefore they were repugnant and disgusting. In Of Time and the River, which includes a rather distorted chronicle of the Harvard years, he mentions the coldness of New England, and his resultant inability to have a physical desire for any Boston woman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thomas Wolfe at Harvard: Damned Soul in Widener | 10/18/1958 | See Source »

...players countless set contracts, especially at no trump. Another virtue of Goren's method was that it supplied a practical way of taking distribution into account: on suit bids (but not on no-trump) it adds one point for a doubleton, two for a singleton, three for a void...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: King of the Aces | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

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