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Word: vacant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late to offer much hope. With characteristic candor, Dr. Graham in the last weeks of his life was re-examining the pros and cons of his operation. One of the last visitors to Graham's bedside was Grateful Patient Gilmore. He still smokes; his cemetery lot is still vacant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Death of a Surgeon | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

Margarita is known to have had considerable support for the position of head coach, left vacant by the firing of Lloyd Jordan, but filled yesterday with the appointment of John Yovicsin. However, it is believed that Margarita expressed his disinterest in the position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Margarita Moves to B.U. | 3/13/1957 | See Source »

...when taxed about it replied: "I'm a radical, like my father before me. The Liberal Party is no longer the home for radicals." Last week, representing her new party on the hustings for the first time, she was contesting the first Liberal seat to fall vacant since she joined Labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Reeling Blow | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

...rent, as opposed to 11% prewar). The bill would raise the rent ceilings on some 5,000,000 houses and apartments up to $2.80 weekly after six months' notice, would remove controls entirely from 800,000 higher-priced dwellings, and release some 5,000,000 owner-occupied or vacant houses for control-free rental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Landlady's Knock | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...General William Morris Hoge, 63, will become board chairman of Cleveland's Interlake Iron Corp., nation's No. 1 independent pig-iron producer (sales: $125 million), filling a post vacant since 1951, when Leigh Willard died. A West Pointer ('16) with a civil engineering degree from M.I.T. ('22), topflight Army Engineer Hoge served under MacArthur as first chief of the Philippine Corps of Engineers (1935), built the Alcan Highway (1942), was a member of the group that planned and operated Omaha Beachhead on Dday. He also commanded the armored division that captured the Remagen Bridge (first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Spin of the Compass | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

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