Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...captain of the Yardling nine last season, Bob Fulton attracted considerable notice. His hitting and catching ability make him a strong contender for the position left vacant by the graduation of Al Colwell and Frank Owen...
...young gentleman had that clean, healthy, vacant look--the kind that permeates the air round a certain species of Freshmen who are already staggering under the vast culture of a whole four months at college. He stood in one of those semicircular mirrors which are the best lure yet devised for selling a fellow a suit-- and he was being shown a suit. He was not being rushed into this affair, though. This gentleman was cagey, and what's more he was in the know as regards clothes...
...belief in God and in man's free will in "glimpsing God's purpose in nature and sharing that purpose." Last week Dr. Compton embarked upon further, and wider, institutional activities. He accepted the Protestant chairmanship of the National Conference of Jews & Christians, a position left vacant by the death of Newton Diehl Baker (TIME, Jan. 3). Physicist Compton will be specially concerned with N. C. J. C.'s educational work, will consult regularly with his Catholic and Jewish cochairmen, Columbia Professor Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes and Businessman Roger Williams Straus, on broad policies of maintaining goodwill...
Cummon now, howja know he's a Harvard? she insisted. Well, you really wanna know, huh? he said. I tell ya then. See this car? Every seat in it is taken, ain't it? Everybody's sittin that's got a place to sit. But there's still one vacant seat left--the one next to HIM. That means he's a Harvard for sure...
...Vacant diplomatic chairs are now: Moscow, Ottawa and Assistant Secretary of State...