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...Avoid silence, especially at dinners. "On sitting down, Mr. Bull should without delay engage one of his two neighbors in conversation ... Be careful not to fall into a vacant stare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Diplomat | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

Both Yale and Penn gave a boost to their 150-pound crew squads when Yale named a part-time 150-pound coach to fill a spot that was vacant since the end of last season, and Penn announced its intention to financially support its team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale 150 lb. Crew Gets New Coach | 2/6/1952 | See Source »

Football Coach Lloyd Jordan has been among those Pittsburgh alumni considered to fill the vacant coaching berth there, Pitt Athletic Director Tom Hamilton told the CRIMSON yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pitt Affirms Jordan Under Consideration | 1/11/1952 | See Source »

...expected to spend the second summer working in hospitals, prisons and settlement houses. The third summer, they take over an industrial mission. Thus Bishop Pardue hopes to develop the kind of men he needs to fill the 21 to 33 industrial parishes in the diocese which have been chronically vacant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Workers' Bishop | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

...aldermen. The lobbying went on outside the U.N. as well-at cocktail parties, convivial soirees and special opera performances, where diplomats who fought each other by day exchanged chitchat with each other's wives at night. The big plums were three small-power Security Council seats which become vacant at year's end. Everybody quickly settled on two of them-Chile to succeed Ecuador in one of the seats traditionally reserved for Latin America, and Pakistan to succeed India in the seat allotted by custom to the British Commonwealth Eastern nations. They fell out over Seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE UNITED NATIONS: Gentlemen's Disagreement | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

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