Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nothing Puritanical about Wildwood, and it is quite frankly a resort city. But that does not mean we are hardened. The resort attracts a very good class of people from all sections of the country. All of our many churches are crowded throughout . the summer and none is vacant in winter...
...vacant lot in Eastchester, suburb about 16 miles from Manhattan, four handsome dogs-a white collie, a dachshund, a setter and a German shepherd ("police dog")-were at play one day fortnight ago. Up rolled a limousine and out stepped a lady who seemed to be fond of animals. She patted each friendly head, seemingly gave each dog something to eat from her handbag. Then the lady climbed back in the car, where her own sweatered Boston bull was yapping in excitement. The automobile rolled away and the four dogs continued to caper...
Noticing a "For Rent" sign on a vacant farmhouse near Chicago's suburban Deerfield, a passerby stopped in to look around. In the backyard he heard feeble whimpers coming from a little shack, smashed a window. Braving a nauseous stench, he crawled inside, found six Scotch terriers huddled in a corner. Obviously near death from stifling and starvation, the six little dogs were rotting bags of bones, their teeth and gums infected, their bodies covered with shiny black spots where their hair had fallen...
...Michigan before going to afternoon classes. As an infantry officer he saw action in the Spanish and World Wars. Last week the trustees of the Rosenwald Museum asked the Planetarium's Dr. Fox to double his duties and direct the Museum as well. He accepted the new post, vacant since Otto Theo Kreusser resigned last year...
Fire destroyed the vacant house at Niles, Ohio where 25th President William McKinley was born...