Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Should Happen to You is pleasant entertainment though there are some dull stretches. Garson Kanin has proven that given Judy Holliday he can create a funny role. And Miss Holliday, with her vacant stare, indicates that gentlemen prefer blondes because some of them are pretty hilarious...
...Franc Question. Abbé Pierre bought the barrack buildings of an old prisoner-of-war camp on credit and set them up in vacant lots. Here he charged 15? for a night's lodging, took in 5,000 people a year and showed a profit. But more money was needed to build more houses, and when an ex-ragpicker suggested collecting junk and selling it, Abbé Pierre promptly organized such an efficient scavenger system that they soon needed a truck...
...Modie Joseph Spiegel Jr., 53, moved up from the presidency to the long-vacant (since the death of his father in 1943) job of board chairman of Spiegel, Inc., the nation's No. 3 mail-order and retail house. Spiegel, still the chief executive officer, took over the family business in 1932, when sales were only $7,000,000 and the company was losing money, got it back on a profitable basis the following year and by last year had boosted sales to $134 million. Replacing him as president: Robert S. Engelman, 41, who, like Spiegel, graduated from Dartmouth...
...appointment of another acting chairman postpones once again the choice of a permanent clergyman to fill the vacant post at Memorial Church and the newly created University professorship. President Pusey announced in September that a permanent chairman will not be chosen "in the near future,"--at least not until a Dean of the Divinity School has been elected...
Toward the end of the trial, the bishop began to wilt, his ruddy face gone sallow, his eyes vacant behind the thick lenses. As the prosecutor summed up-about the missing typewriter, the assumed name, the charwoman's scrap of paper, the fingerprints-the bishop clutched his chair, and glanced nervously from judge to defense counsel. Finally, last week, it was over, and all Sweden breathed a sigh of relief...