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...learning and still meet its budget, a school with a large graduate program must cover certain fields adequately. Harvard continues to de-emphasize at a time when political geographers are needed by the government and when other schools, such as Yale, are building up their geography studies. The void in geography also hurts departments like Economics and History whose students cannot get expert help in problems tied up with geography...
...practice, a slender pencil of X rays is shot through the material to be examined. The rays that pass through are detected by the crystal and turned into electric current. If the current is stronger than standard, indicating a void or flaw in the material, the apparatus rings a bell or flashes a light...
...last. Over Radio Peking, Red Premier Chou En-lai flatly brushed aside the cease-fire proposal. Like Wu, he spurned it as a trick designed to shield U.S. aggression. Like Wu, he insisted that U.N. forces be withdrawn from Korea. He added that the cease-fire resolution was null & void anyway, because Red China did not take part in the U.N. debate or vote on it. "Therefore," proclaimed Chou, "neither the Chinese government nor its representatives are prepared to have any contact with this illegal three-man committee...
Practical Politics. In Cheyenne, Wyo., Dan Rees, elected county commissioner after a campaign in which he promised to be "reasonably honest," gave fair warning to the electorate in a newspaper ad: "All promises made in the heat of the campaign are hereby retracted; they are null and void and of no further value...
...lightyear, the distance light travels in a year, equals six trillion miles. † And the earth was without form, and void: and darkness was upon the face of the deep -Genesis...