Word: devoid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great numbers. The work of the I. W. w. was so contrary to the industrial interests of the west that they concocted a list of about 160 suspected leaders who were at once arrested. Mr. Manning was taken into custody in Seattle and confined in a little cell, absolutely devoid of furniture, although no charge had been brought up against him. After three months he was taken to Chicago, where he remained for twelve more months in the Cook County Jail. Finally the trial was held, but according to Mr. Manning, the conditions that obtained in the court-room were...
...would be a very great mistake if the present Harvard Debating Union were to attempt an elaborate constitution, for they would inevitably become involved in parliamentary discussions juvenile in character and devoid of public interest. There should be no more elaborate organization than an executive committee at the head of each club directing the course of the debates. The fewer the officers the better the organization. This, indeed, is the strongest feature of the proposed Harvard Debating Union...
...Edison's latest list of questions, as published, certainly constitutes a good test of general information and keenness of sense. The questions are of course, far from being a test of scholastic training. There are many highly educated men, especially in the specialties of science, who are quite devoid of common sense, and to whom the book of general information remains for ever sealed. Many of Mr. Edison's questions are distinctly along the line of the "wisdom of the humble". This one for example: "What three American coins make a dollar?" the answer to which is doubtless "a half...
Screamings accusations devoid of any foundation on facts sensationalism for the sake of sensationalism for the sake of sensationalism, and mud-slinging for the mere joy of feeling the muck will sooner or later lose its force and its influence on the minds of the public--which is in the end really composed of "people who think", not of people who swallow...
...them be the work of genius, the genius is still chrysalic, or was absent for the day, but they serve their purpose well enough, and the page of caricatures shows some threat of real inspiration. All in all, it is a good number, and not devoid of promise...