Word: fills
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day came the brightening. The voters in Iowa's Fourth District elected a Republican to fill the unexpired term of a Democratic Congressman who had died in office (see below), and the outcome seemed to show that simply denouncing Benson is not quite so surefire a method of winning farm belt elections as Democrats had hoped-and Republicans had feared...
...twelve patients (only five inpatients), got up to 21 in November, then slumped to three a week this month. Clinical Director Robert J. Birnkrant, who is both an M.D. and a D.D.S., notes that operating costs run to $43,000 a month. Unless dental cowards-and professionally conservative dentists-fill some of the hospital's cavities soon, the pioneering venture will have to be abandoned. Only the stockholders cannot lose: the building would make a quick hit as a specialized medical hospital, e.g., for ear-nose-throat cases...
...scent track might offer rather more than meets the nose. Exhibitors can sniff secondary possibilities in "the olfactory dimension." One of them has suggested that if he could give his customers the smell of steam heat, he might be able to cut down his oil bill. Another plans to fill his theater, at tactful intervals, with the scent of buttered popcorn...
Wald's course, which exists only in outline as yet, was proposed to fill the gap left by leaves of absence taken by four professors now teaching introductory and General Education courses in biology. It follows a precedent set by the Geology Department, which last year abandoned its introductory and accepted Natural Sciences 10 for concentration...
...hardly finished when conservative Bostonians rose in protest, denouncing him as a traitor and a Bolshevik, accusing the University of supporting the strike and mob rule, (Harvard had actually sent about 200 students to help fill temporary gaps in the force) and demanding that Laski be immediately removed from his instructorship...