Word: filled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manner of speaking, Frank B. Willis has stepped into the shoes of one President already. When the Senate seat of Warren G. Harding became vacant when its occupant moved to the White House in 1921, Willis was appointed to fill the empty chair. He has held that seat ever since, active in committee work, but lacking the spectacular record of some of his colleagues with Presidential aspirations...
...return from Europe, his political career ran a course similar to that of many senators. From the Missouri Legislature he graduated into the House for three Congresses. On November 2, 1926, he was elected to fill out the term of the late Senator S. P. Spencer, which expired in 1927, and to serve a six-year term until...
...wish is not always gratified. Presidential possibilities seldom talk for publication after they have become possibilities. In Smith's case, however, this much is true: this man has been governor of the most populous State in the Union for eight of the last ten years. And no one can fill that office for the better part of a decade without encountering at least a few issues which are national as well as local...
There are 880,000 words in the Bible; 940,000 in the complete works of William Shakespeare. Add these together and season with the Arabian Nights of Scheherazade; the mixture will fail to fill a pot as big as that which would contain the Revelations of a Wife, 3,000,000-word novel, longest in the world...
...Herbert Hoover is the best man for the Republican nomination, in my opinion. He has the heart, the mind, the experience, and the education to fill the position. But he lacks the means properly to articulate his power. No doubt he is the popular choice of the Republican party, but it does not follow that he will receive the nomination. His position is analogous to that of Leonard Wood in 1920; he is too good for the nomination. The situation which developed in 1920 may yet be repeated in 1928. You remember that at that time, after much wrangling, Harding...