Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus was filled the post made vacant by the retirement last October of Very Rev. William Ralph ("The Gloomy Dean") Inge. Once a bank clerk like his father, Walter Matthews had been dean of Exeter Cathedral, changed posts after annoying his Bishop by inviting Nonconformists into his pulpit (TIME, July 2). An able philosopher and theologian. Dean Matthews gets $10,000 a year at St. Paul's, will be poorer than he was at Exeter because he must give part of his stipend to his good friend Dean Inge...
...Club located at 78 Mt. Auburn Street and the wooden frame building at 68 Mt. Auburn Street, both of which are University property. The K. E. X. Club-house has been in disuse for three years, since the inauguration of the House plan, while the other has been vacant for nearly a decade...
With Israel Amter, Communist candidate for governor, leading their bedraggled forces, the marchers settled down in a vacant Albany house and mapped their next line of attack...
...Poverty In California." the Los Angeles County Republican Assembly sniffed fraud, began an investigation of registrations. First result was a suit filed by the State's Attorney General to remove 24,136 names from the rolls. According to the Republicans, hopeful vagrants had been giving vacant lots and stores for residences, had assumed the names of dead men in order to ballot for their EPICandidate...
Since 1931 the University has allowed the professorship of Meteorology and Climatology to remain vacant. The Administration excuses itself by the statement that the services of the leading meteorologists in the country are not at present available at Harvard. This attitude of patient waiting for the eligible meteorologist to come along does not, however, improve the lot of the student who is concentrating in a field that should include meteorological study...