Word: devoid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman five triumphed over the first-year quintet from M. I. T. by a 32 to 18 score last night in a game devoid of thrills. Both teams showed an excessive fondness for long shots, but the Crimson players were fairly fortunate in caging these attempts. Hesse, given his first real chance of the season, was the outstanding Harvard player, and Umbenhauer excelled for the visitors. Leekley, Freshman center, was forced to retire on account of an injured ankle...
...Railroad Board declared in a statement: " The position of the Pennsylvania System in this matter is devoid of intrinsic merit, violative of the will of Congress and destructive of the rights of the employees." President Rea took " specific exception" to these charges. He maintained that the Board's decision invaded the constitutional and legal rights of his Company, that the Company was on good terms with its employees, and that " the only real discordant note is that being sounded by the Labor Board...
Liberals," said The New Republic, " what do you want? . . . Both old parties are intellectually bankrupt, twin ghosts, empty of meaning, devoid of conviction?the outs and the ins. Somebody, some day, is going to blow them into new life ?or into smithereens...
...story of Bartholow is human matter fit for the pen of James of Meredith not unlike "Modern Love" in theme and manner but Meredith devoid of ornament. Bartholow, celebrating liberation of soul and intellect, discovers late the treachery of the liberating Raven "a resident savior domiciled", serene, a hypocrite redeemed by understanding. The woman, Gabrielle, whose tragedy is just a foil for Bartholow's reveals how superficial insincerity can stultify a spirit over-prone to casual conformity, until it dies unnourished. Like a "confidant" the other character--perhaps the post--is an incongruous philosopher who talks a Latinized American appropriate...
About Britain. " All around flowed the busy life of peaceful, unsuspecting, easy-going Britain. The streets were thronged with men and women utterly devoid of any sense of danger from abroad. For nearly a thousand years no foreign army had landed on British soil. For a hundred years the safety of the homeland had never been threatened. They went about their business, their sport, their class and party fights year after year, generation after generation, in perfect confidence and considerable ignorance...