Word: devoid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result, probably, of the avoidance of expense, the collection was also almost wholly devoid of descriptive labels. By estimation, about 90 percent of the specimens were unlabelled, except as each set of specimens was marked with the name of the collector or donor. In this condition, a collection, no matter how valuable, is extremely difficult of comprehension by students, and indeed the interest which the intelligent public can take in it is greatly diminished. Again, the many duplicates, indestructible, and other objects, which for one reason or another are not on display, are, for lack of proper storage facilities, tucked...
...picture which he pins over his bunk. The complications resulting from his bluff are worked out so skillfully and with so little sentimentality that the people seem real and the situation funny and convincing at the same time ; that the end, confused by an unnecessary sound-sequence, is devoid of kisses, should not spoil this smart picture for the box office. Best shot: the Texan (Gary Cooper) drinking a chocolate ice-cream soda...
...Every motor car would be headed for the scrapheap; every loudspeaker would be silent; every telephone would 'go dead'; every electric light would go out. The gloveless surgeon would be unable to perform his life-saving operations. . . . Contemporary man could not get along. . . . Life would be devoid of half its conveniences and comforts...
...many of your normal, well-balanced readers, who believe in protecting the people against themselves by judicious enactment of laws restraining the vicious and those devoid of self-control from inflicting upon themselves and others the consequences of self indulgence and vice, your timely expose of the Taft letter, which to many of your readers was unknown, was I am sure, very much like the discovery of a letter written by Abraham Lincoln in 1857 applauding the Dred Scott decision; or Theodore Roosevelt's posthumous missive condemning the Sherman Anti-Trust law; or a communication of William McKinley condoning...
...Coolidge Special got up steam. Behind it, when it started, would lie a Capital devoid of newsful Governmental activity save for the Federal Trade Commission's lively but long-drawn investigation of the Power Trust...