Hand stamp, a small stamp for dating, addressing, or canceling papers, envelopes, etc.
No draft calls were issued in July and August, but in September the Army staff tried again, canceling the call for Negroes and rejecting black volunteers for induction.
As quickly as they do so, the conveyor belts carry the letters, according to the different sizes into which they have been separated, to the electrically-driven canceling machines.
The thought finally occurred to him to use sand in the mucilage, so that when the stamp was struck in the usual canceling operation the sand would cut through it.
A party labored on the idea of a device to perforate postage stamps in the operation of canceling them.
Your injured arm will be a good excuse for canceling your run for a few days.
But I have no idea of canceling my run," declared Ralph.
Of course you can't blame a Kansas merchant for going back on his orders in a grasshopper year; but it is the fellow who has half a notion of canceling when he buys and afterwards really does cancel, that I carry a club for.
Because he wrote the house canceling the order before he started back home.
In this canceling business, though, sometimes the merchant has just cause for it.
I know I once had a case where my customer did exactly the right thing by canceling his order.
Nor can the insured protect himself by canceling the prior policy if he breaks the condition.
After that period the statutes of limitation in most states have the effect of canceling a debt, on the theory or presumption that it has been paid.
As expected, the king, with a wave of his hand, makes the slave a present of the ten million dollars which he owes, thereby canceling the entire indebtedness.
Instead of canceling their obligations as his own had been, he cast them into prison.
And yet, though he worked frantically, canceling appointments and clearing up correspondence, he couldn't bring home to himself the reality of the situation.
Any divergence from his usual habits, such as staying in obscure quarters orcanceling engagements that he might escape to the Continent, would create the impression that he was possessed of guilty knowledge.
The canceling of the terms of indenture, he regarded as a secret act, intended merely to outwit his opponent.
As to the second question, it was decided to "contract the currency" by gathering into the Treasury and there canceling the "greenbacks.
As public sentiment demanded the reduction of the debt, it was decided to pay the bonds as fast as possible, and contract the currency by canceling the greenbacks.
But after the fourth issue a peremptory order canceling the second-class mailing privilege put an effectual stop to further efforts to continue the uneven struggle.
Mr. Gordon then showed me the exact position of the body, the spot where the paper lay, the canceling hammer, and the blood-marks.
The inquest was held in this room, but nothing was moved from the bank except the body and the canceling hammer.
He had been murdered by three blows on the back of the head, the instrument used being a heavy canceling hammer, which we found close by, clotted with blood and hair.
The jury found that the act of canceling was incomplete at the time the testator was stopped; and the court was of opinion that that conclusion was right, and that the will was not revoked.
For, although every act of canceling imports, prima facie, that it is done animo revocandi, yet it is but a presumption which may be repelled by accompanying circumstances.
While Congress was drifting to a sound financial policy, the President and his Secretary of the Treasury were widely divergent, the former in favor of repudiation, and the latter in favor of paying and canceling all United States notes.
And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act the further reduction of the currency by retiring or canceling United States notes shall be, and hereby is, prohibited.
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