Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fired 2,000 State employes. Ever a ready trough for jobbing politicos, the Highway Department supplied 1,310 of the dismissals. Politicians normally expect to slip in their followers after economy waves subside, but local dispensers in Ohio last week were actually worried lest John Bricker keep the vacancies vacant...
...aged 13, was owner, manager, captain and second baseman of a baseball club. Son of a well-to-do Manhattan brewer with a home on Fifth Avenue, he made his players clean the cages of his private menagerie before he would bring the bat and ball down to the vacant lot where they played. He fired any player who struck out. For young Jake could not bear to see his team lose...
With more red tape out of the way, the approval of the President's nomination of the Professor Felix Frankfurter to the vacant seat on the Supreme Court Bench came closer to reality...
...does not have the bruising contact or the spectacular tactics which lend an air of dramatic excitement to football. What is more important, it has not received the publicity which attracts the colorful myriads into football stadia. Consequently, the Harvard soccer team has won most of its games before vacant stands and empty sidelines, and its victories have been unaccompanied by streamer headlines on sports pages. Even when it defeated Yale to conclude its most successful season since 1914, to win the New England Intercollegiate League title, and to become Big Three champion, there was comparatively little stir or jubilation...
...candidate for U. S. Representative from Maryland, was making a political speech in the Thomas Jefferson Club's hall, which has a seating capacity of 200. One hundred and ninety-nine seats were filled. Suddenly a heavy electric light globe plopped down from the ceiling, hit the one vacant seat...