Word: voided
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...passed with flying colors. “She is our best sabre fencer and by far ahead of everyone else in the nation,” Crimson coach Peter Brand said. “[The championship] will be very competitive.” Vloka has filled the void in the sabre in a big way. This season she has gone undefeated at some of the biggest and most important matches, including a 9-0 record at the Beanpot and going 3-0 against Sacred Heart. Perhaps her most exciting outing of the year came against Ohio State and St. John?...
...last few mawkish minutes of the 1979 film The Champ, which involves a dying boxer and his wailing boy. Others watched a dry nature clip. Subjects induced to feel sad were willing to spend significantly more money on a sporty insulated water bottle offered for purchase postviewing. "This void of loss people feel makes them want to fill it up with something," says Keltner--and often that means spending a little more for a luxury item. This doesn't mean you should take on a second mortgage, 2006-style, but it wouldn't hurt you or your local coffee roaster...
...online strategy at Heritage. Bluey says that while the government has made PDF versions of bills available online for a while now, the documents are never searchable and they are hard for regular citizens to digest. "The government wasn't doing it, so we stepped in to fill that void." (Read "How to Spend a Trillion Dollars...
City Bank of New York was founded in 1812 by a group of merchants hoping to fill the void left by the demise of the first Bank of the United States, the sort-of central bank whose charter Congress had allowed to expire the year before. City nearly went under in the Panic of 1837 but was bailed out by the country's richest man, fur magnate John Jacob Astor. Astor's associate Moses Taylor built City into a bulwark of sound finance--big capital reserves, stingy lending standards--that bankrolled the Union during the Civil War and easily withstood...
...ours before we were the land's"; Wyeth paints Young America (1950) showing a boy in the garb of a footloose youth riding an extravagant bicycle in all the vastness of America. As he often does, Wyeth actually painted the figures over a completed landscape, afterthoughts in a void...