Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South Jackson Street. Coretta heard a thud on the porch and thought it was a brick, nothing particularly frightening around the King home during that period. She and the friend moved to a back room to continue their conversation-and a dynamite bomb went off, filling the vacant living room with a hail of broken glass...
Judson T. Shaplin '42; Associate Dean of the School of Education, and a colleague, Mrs. George W. Ogden, Jr., are fighting the five other members of the city's School Committee in their efforts to appoint and promote 17 teachers to vacant or newly-created posts in the school system. Shaplin claims that the appointments were made illegally, without the advice of the Superintendent of Schools, without merit examinations, and without considering the teachers' qualifications...
...Plate marked VERBOTEN, property of the Preusfische Staats-Eisenbahm," etc.). Julius begged the little monsters: "Now if you will only be good a little longer, you'll be in your own nice beds with a glass of delicious hot milk." And grabbing Robert (who had skipped behind a vacant desk and gone to work with pen and rubber stamp), he rushed the trio off in search of a hotel. But not until day's end did weary Julius find a place that was prepared to admit Robert. Léon and Tzara-and even then, "they were taken...
Replacements, which are sorely needed to fill vacant spots, have appeared for some of the graduates, however, and several of last year's weak events have been strengthened by members of last year's undefeated freshman team...
...vote, to order a closed, Democratic-controlled recount of the contested districts. When the ballots were recounted, the general assembly declared that both Democratic contenders had won. Then with both houses under Democratic control, the assembly declared all five Supreme Court seats-all then held by Republicans-vacant, replaced the justices with three Democrats, two other Republicans...