Word: voiding
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...forcing down more determinedly than ever, creeps in around the edges of the dirty window, even permeates the very brick wall of the Vagabond's room. It crushes in, and constricts all his senses to a dazzling pin-point of luminosity a vast distance within itself; in the empty void about it swirl shapeless visions, as badly squared as painted blocks; there is a sensation of a ceaseless drop from an infinite height, a whirling flight through an entire universe of indistinct, uncomprehending chaos...
...basic struggle between agriculture and industry has been disguised by the existence of two major parties of national scope which rested upon compromise. The Democratic Party is rapidly becoming the expression of the industrial interests and the Republican Party appears temporarily removed from the field on national politics. The void left by the Republican incapacity will be filled by this new third party led by the Farmer Labor contingent, a party which will crystallize the discontented farmers into a group of prime political importance...
...Visibility one-eighth mile, ceiling 500 ft., ice forming on wings and tail." Hallgren did not hear Chicago order him to turn back to St. Louis. He felt his plane settling groggily, looked for a landing place. When the white ground reached up for him out of the white void, he flipped off his ignition to prevent a fire...
...more immediate interest to bridge enthusiasts are the figures on distribution expectancy. Run-of-the-mine players who feel "safer" in a suit bid than at no-trump, like to pick up hands containing long suits studded with honors, short or void suits representing ability to ruff. If the cards are shuffled so that a truly random arrangement results, a player should get a 6-card suit every six hands, a 7-card suit every 28 hands, a singleton every three hands, a void suit every 20 hands...
...straighten out the city's muddled finances Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia had sent to the State Legislature an emergency economy bill giving him temporary blanket power to reorganize New York City's government, to fix salaries arbitrarily, to declare null & void any provisions of the city charter which conflicted with his program. Occupied with fighting opposition from Tammany legislators at Albany, he was not prepared to be stopped in his bold career by a high-minded Governor. As everyone knows, Democrat Herbert Henry Lehman is the great and good friend of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Very sick (appendectomy) last autumn...