Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Standing Still. But if they like the looks of the new crop, seminary officials are not happy about its size. Seminary enrollment has hovered steadily around 20,000 since 1956, and the number of vacant manses grows larger each year. "There is no cause for satisfaction," warns the scorekeeper of the profession, Dr. Charles Taylor of the American Association of Theological Schools. "We've got to do more than mark time...
...conference is being offered under the auspices of the Chauncy Stillman Chair of Catholic Studies, which has been left vacant by Christopher Dawson's departure for England Dawson was, the first professor to hold the chair...
...purpose of the two year rule is to allow younger men in the Departments to move up, and also to ensure that professorship are not left vacant for too long a period. Thus once a man has resigned, there is no guarantee that he will get his job back...
Bringing on the Bulldozers. A year ago, downtown Pomona seemed to be a terminal case. The main drag, Second Street, was a sorry sight; a third of its buildings were vacant, shops that once were elegant had become clustered holes-in-the-wall-paint peeling, screens rusted to holes. Businessmen and merchants who had not yet moved away were wondering if there was any future at all in the downtown area, and landlords were making things worse by forgoing repairs...
...phrase, before the nation can hope for new housing, adequate schools, modern highways. Half the houses in France do not have running water. For France's 6,200,000 cars there are only 125 miles of divided parkway, one main north-south artery and, seemingly, not a single vacant parking space in Paris. Urgently needed school modernization programs are bogged down in age-old religious squabbles. Potentially productive farm land is unused for lack of regional development schemes such as dams. A medieval distributive system raises the price of a peach 1,150% between farmer and housewife, infuriating both...