Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doing Coney Island on six bucks, Joey cossacks around the carousel and lances fiercely at the ring with a pudgy forefinger; he jangles vacant-eyed through a miniature scenic railway, slings a sledge as big as himself, whomps the nickel rockets grimly at the wooden milk bottles till they topple at last, and the victor's laurel-a limp paper lei-descends on his brow, and falls around his neck...
...will attest, there is nothing worse than an empty seat. And the 30,000-odd empty seats which will line the inside of the Harvard Stadium today are testimonial not to Davidson's winless record or afternoon parietal rules, but instead to just poor scheduling. The seats will be vacant as they were against Ohio University because only 10,000 people are interested in watching such a football game. Undergraduates will attend primarily because of the free ticket plan; the absence of young ladies, however, may make the Saturday night dining hall look about as crowded as a Sunday morning...
WILLIAM Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp, the Manhattan real-estate company which bought Charlie Chaplin's Hollywood lot for $650,000, will lease the studio to television film producers, build a big new shopping center on the vacant part of the land...
AMERICAN industry is on the greatest man hunt in its history. It is hunting for executives to fill top jobs today and to fill those that become vacant in future years. Seldom has there been a greater opportunity for able men, not only to get good jobs, but to move ahead fast. The chief reason is that industry, which has just about doubled in size during the great boom, needs far more bosses than it has had time to train. But the corporations, having solved the mechanical problems of mass production, are finding it harder to learn the things they...
Oncley would not necessarily have been appointed as the University Professor, a post chosen by the President and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. This position, also left vacant by Cohn's death last week, is separate from the duties in the laboratory...