Word: voids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disinfectant), chanted rhymed statistics and wore miters inscribed with the sacred text: "The Welfare of the Greatest Number of Microorganisms is the Purpose of the Cosmos." The U.S. had passed a Constitutional amendment "by virtue of which the economic law of supply and demand was declared null and void...
...winter's worst days, when it was too cold to stop anywhere long and sketch. He sees in it, above the houses, "the ghostly spirit of the wind and snow, about to engulf the village, and beyond that is a dark, sinister shape fashioned out of the moving void...
Dactylic Don Juan. To Matthew Arnold's dictum that Shelley was "a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain," Author Smith & Others snort an indignant Jig-gerypoo! Shelley, they insist, was a dactylic Don Juan, a Byron of the Bohemian underbrush. "The difficulty with the Shelley worshippers is that they cannot bring themselves to realize or to admit that...
...offensive to the public policy. It appears to me to be a moral duty to ... repel [such provisions] as fissiparous tendencies which would imperil national unity." His ruling: the discriminatory clause and all others like it (involving millions of dollars' worth of property in Ontario) were henceforth void...
...young life. Big business, which had seethed in silence for 15 months while Saskatchewan's CCFers adopted a batch of socialist laws, suddenly struck back. The Canadian Pacific Railway, the Dominion Loan & Mortgage Association and the Hudson's Bay Co. appealed to the Federal Government to void three key Saskatchewan laws...