Word: voiding
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...vacuum tube, first detected by Edison during his experiments with electric light a half century ago, is that when two wires, one positively charged, and the other negatively, are inserted into a vacuum, and the negative wire or filament is heated, a current passes from the filament through the void to the positive terminal...
...Void Filler...
Should TIME desire a word to fill an apparent void in the language, a word with which to indicate a peculiar adaptability for being able to appear to advantage in a photograph, I would suggest a new departure in linguistic concoctions: euiconogenic. . . . Here in euiconogenic, then, TIME will find a word which plainly conveys but one meaning: "producing a likeness well...
...first-line critics have contributed little except a few quarantine signs'. Those signs, mostly ignored, warned generally against what Aldous Huxley calls "that doughy, woolly, anodyne writing [which] ... we read because we suffer when we have time to spare and no printed matter with which to plug the void . . . because the-second nature of habituated readers abhors a vacuum. . . ." That readers continue to put their faith in publishers' ads rather than critics' warnings was well evidenced by the case of the fat historical romance, And So-Victoria, which since publication ten weeks ago has been filling reader...
...love best to realize the dream of the daring seaman who was bold enough, heretical enough, to proclaim in the face of all existing dogma that the earth was round. He smiled, too, as he thought of his wanderings in the American waters--then as unknown as a black void and filled with infinite terrors, and the explorations, and the final failures and ultimate defeat of that gallant seafarer. He smiled, thinking of the way the sea often wins out against the boldest plans of men, of the mystery of the sea that made men still love to sail...