Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nothing was more insufferable to Vag than the Sunday train ride back to Boston. He squinted through the frosted window, sighed dismally, and then the impossible happened. A pretty girl, a college girl, undoubtedly from Wellesley, took the vacant seat next to him. It happened just as Vag had always seen in the movies. He knew exactly what to do, for the scene had been rehearsed in his mind a thousand times before. Her baggage must be torn from her small hands and lifted to the rack above. Helplessly, Vag watched the red-cap go through the motions. Still, there...
...arrival of Dr. Eugene Shen to take the place left vacant by the leave of absence given to Phillip J. Rulon, assistant professor of Education, was announced by the Gradate School of Education...
...Chairman Ed Birmingham of Iowa's State Democratic Committee came close to spoiling the scenery with a blob of politics just before the curtain went up on Mr. Hopkins' act. Zealous candidate for the vacant throne of the Bureau of Fisheries in Mr. Hopkins' department, Mr. Birmingham gave the impression that Iowa delegates were being lined up for Mr. Hopkins' nomination as President next year. Mr. Birmingham was quickly shushed, but no political observer missed the point that the prize at stake in Harry Hopkins' performance was not just one State's convention delegates...
...never before held a corporate job, was nothing if not drastic. He lopped off the losing wholesale business entirely, along with 1,600 employes. He reorganized the management of Chicago's Merchandise Mart, each of whose first 19 floors contains six acres of floor space, much of it vacant. He consolidated the manufacturing division's 24 mills, marked out a sweeping program for it. About all he did not alter appreciably was Marshall Field's retail division, which had lost money only once in 50 years...
...religious advisers of popular young King Farouk, not yet 19, have long nursed an ambition to have their monarch designated Caliph of all Islam, spiritual head of all Moslems. That job has been vacant since 1924 when the last Caliph, Turkey's Abdul Medjid II, was booted out by Turkey's late Dictator Kamal Ataturk. Carefully schooled, sporty King Farouk has frequently taken time off from golf and duck shooting (see cut) to attend" Cairo's mosques in an effort to convince the Moslem world of his fitness for the Caliphate...