Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime the U. S. population has increased, available shelter has actually decreased and most U. S. citizens have completely forgotten the realities of the post-War housing shortage. In 1920 real-estate sections of U. S. newspapers were crammed with advertisements offering bonuses for vacant shelter such as this...
...Houses was busy handing out guest checks when from behind came the query, "Where shall we sit?" She thought she recognized the voice of one of the House's more insufferable jokesters. "Right this way, darling," she called over her shoulder and led the way to a vacant table. She drew out a chair and made ready to hand the student his meal check, when she saw seating himself no student, but Aldrich Durant, (among other things overlord of the Dining Hall), much amused...
...Marquette, Mich. Polish-born Bishop Joseph Casimir Plagens had by last week accustomed Italian, French, German and Polish Catholics to hearing him orate and converse fluently in their languages. Still vacant remained the post Bishop Plagens left to take over the diocese of Sault Ste. Marie & Marquette-the auxiliary Bishopric of Detroit, see of Bishop Michael James Gallagher...
Cassandra-like, Jefferson could sometimes read the future: "I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be any vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe." Shays's Rebellion did not horrify Jefferson nearly so much as it did Washington, Said he: "I like a little rebellion now & then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere...
...market (15,000 theatres to Great Britain's 4,000) on a large scale by buying a partnership in United Artists, which releases his pictures in the U. S. For years the English cinema industry functioned in converted garrets, suburban garden backyards and a few vacant lots at Elstree. Producer Korda bought an enormous tract of land at Denham and set about building a $5,000,000 studio which, now almost complete, is as big and as well equipped as anything in Hollywood...