Word: voiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...considered the absolute zero of the drama itself; when the Professor ends his lectures on Sheridan, he casts a long glance forward to 1865 and Robertson, dons his seven-league critical boots, and stamps his way quickly through the poetic drama and the Shakesperian revivals, which alone illuminate the "void, or chaos, of Georgian and early Victorian drama," leaving in his train disparagement and apology until he comes to the renaissance of realism in the work of Robertson and the Bancrofts, when he smiles again, and the class stops cutting...
...obvious that none of these amendments prohibited private individuals from entering into contracts respecting the control and disposition of their own property, and there is no color whatever for the contention that they rendered the indenture void...
...last two changes are clearly progressive. It might be feared that to abolish mid-year tests-would leave a void in the system of grading. In this case, however, there is definite intent to substitute the instructor's judgment for the results of the quizz. And, as if to emphasize that the quality of work required is not to be lowered, President Ogilby has announced that students failing in a large proportion of their work will be dropped their first mid-year, on the basis of instructors reports as heretofore on the results of examinations. Comment on the permission granted...
...Russia's renouncing of all rights in the little country of Esthonia, and the declaration of the crarist treaty with Great Britain to divide Persia between the two countries as void, are typical examples of the spirit of justice and brotherhood embodied in the foreign policy. This mode of action is a real advance and not nearly so nebulous as the League of Nations or the World Court. The same spirit has been exhibited toward Turkey in the action of the Soviet, in leaving the choice of mandatory or occupation up to Turkey and the small Mohammedan countries...
...Void of purpose, just stewing frantically with the selfish desire to marry Sondra, the boy's mind involuntarily evolves, his hand spasmodically executes, the murder of Roberta. He bashes her with a camera, capsizes their canoe...