Word: fill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Promptly at 9:05 p.m. the chairman got things off to an early start. He introduced himself. This took 20 minutes: time to allow the hall to fill, and for him to enumerate his attributes. The most important of these was that he was born in East Cambridge, was brought up in East Cambridge, went to school in East Cambridge, and still loves East Cambridge and what East Cambridge stands for. In Cambridge this is all good...
After the 1944 election Mr. Dulles was made a member of the UN delegation, and more recently he was appointed by Governor Dowey to fill a vacant Senate seat. In both these positions he showed great interest in international affairs, but all the importance features of our present policy have been determined by the Democratic Secretaries of State and chiefly Senator Vandenberg for the Republicans...
Princeton blocking in the center of the line was equally effective, although, not so spectacular. The Harvard secondary had to fill the holes, and since the buck series sent the tailback and wingback around end the backers-up had to hold back until the play was committed. This usually meant a five yard gain...
...started dredging out the gook last Wednesday, when the contract began. A third will swing into action in two weeks, when it gets the necessary engine parts. After they have dug pits 11 feet down from water level and stretching out a few yards from either bank, they will fill the holes with gravel mounds 15 inches higher than present water level, as bases for the abutments...
Housing and city maintenance are the two big departments in which the services rendered are far too little and the cost far too great for the city. The community could stand thousands more low cost housing units and still not thoroughly fill the demand for the slum clearance. Worse than this, the city is paying now on the average of $80 per month to subsidize each of the present units. Both McDonough and Hynes have constantly attacked Curley on the housing problem--accusing him of allowing privileged families who have incomes above the specified ceiling to remain in the units...