Word: fill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inch, Ell. In Cleveland, Mrs. Jessie Salsburg graciously allowed a bus driver to use her front yard faucet to fill his steaming radiator. All the drivers on the route followed suit, in three months ran the Salsburg water bill...
...heart specialist was called. Examination showed that a blood clot was blocking off the blood from Max Gardner's heart. At 8:25 a.m. the starved heart stopped. Oliver Max Gardner was dead. It would be hard to find as good a man to fill his place...
...Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin had been in Publisher Robert McLean's mind for a long time, but he had never had the right kinds of things to fill it with. He got them last fortnight when he bought up the strikebound Philadelphia Record from J. David Stern (TIME...
...intent: "When you consider that probably three-quarters of the families of this country receive an annual income of $2500 or less, the inadequacies of small scholarships amounting to a quarter or a half of the total expense becomes manifest." If the National Scholarships are to continue to fill the role cut out for them by this picture of necessity, they must be measured against the yardstick of original purpose, especially in a period when the individual cost of education looms up as a national problem...
Even the swarms of eager young musicians whose war-stunted careers are blossoming out all over England cannot adequately fill the ranks of the nine symphony orchestras in London. Without including the minor ones, there are three first rate orchestras. The B.B.C., alternately under the direction of Sir Adrian Boult and Basil Cameron, is probably the best, giving regular weekly concerts and, during winter and summer seasons, nightly promenade concerts in a 10,000 seat monstrosity called the Royal Albert Hall. The London Symphony, under Malcolm Sargent, also performs once a week at the Albert; while the London Philharmonic since...