Word: fills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Briand left the bedside of four-time Prime Minister Raymond Poincare, last week, he had himself held that office on previous occasions eleven times. He was now to make it twelve times?for last week party leaders of the numerous chamber factions agreed, almost unanimously, that no one could fill the political void created by M. Poincaré except M. Briand...
...unprecedented demand for the Sikorsky Amphibian forces us to announce regretfully our inability to fill new orders for . . . months...
...come. Boiler plate is the trade name for stories and articles (usually of feature or semi-feature character) which are prepared, written and set up by Western Newspaper Union staff. The country editor, low on news, simply takes as much of the boiler plate material as he needs to fill up his issue. Patent insides are somewhat different, pertaining to advertising, not to editorial content. The editor who patronizes a patent insides service is sent an entire newspaper With the first page blank but with many an advertisement printed on the inside pages. Then the editor runs the paper through...
...could still "sack the lot" because, hale at 82, he was retaining his majority of Guardian stock, and his office of "governing director" (publisher). Nor was the editorship passing far from his touch. To fill his shoes Editor Scott had trained up his son, Edward Taylor Scott, now 45, a quiet, Oxford-educated economist...
...question was and is: who can be, who should be, acknowledged World's Champion to fill the niche whence James Joseph Tunney stepped into the Social Register? The hope was that Herr Schmeling, who is quite as genteel as Mr. Tunney but whose fighting face and style sharply recall tigerish onetime Champion Jack Dempsey, would prove himself eligible...