Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fitzgerald asserted in his suit that he found a buyer prepared to pay $210,000 for the vacant land, but that the University failed to carry the deal through and gave him no compensation for his efforts...
...another: he managed to quarrel with just about everybody he met, for long periods slept with a loaded pistol under his pillow. Born in the Ionian Islands in 1850 of mixed Anglo-Irish and Maltese stock, he emigrated to the U.S. at 19, slept in Manhattan doorways and vacant lots, finally went West to Cincinnati in 1871 and got a job on the Enquirer. Color-conscious Cincinnati readers liked his lush accounts of the seamier side of Queen City life, but were rocked to the heels when word got around that Reporter...
Jostling armies of liquid-eyed children still play in its filthy, glass-strewn alleys, its dark hallways, and in vacant lots, where the refuse of generations is packed solid, a foot higher than the sidewalks. Its old men are sad. The young men who haunt its streets by night-callow bravoes with oiled black hair, sharp suits and the melancholy curse of pimples-loiter in knots with expressionless faces, just as they did when Frank Costello had a gun in his pocket and was one of them...
Some 10,000 seats will be vacant in the Yale Bowl tomorrow. The Yale Athletic Association said last night it expects a crowd of 60,000 spectators, 21,000 will come from Harvard...
...CRIMSON checkup revealed last night that none of New Haven's seven biggest hotels have vacant rooms of any sort for the weekend. The Hotels Bishop, Court, Duncan, Garde, Stand, and Taft and the Lincoln House are all booked...