Word: vacantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general theory heretofore concerning the origin of the yell--one which Mr. Rinehart said had no truth in it--was that a lonely youth had conceived the idea of calling his own name up to a vacant room so that the other students would think he was not without friends...
...kept its report secret. By some remarkable prestidigitation the Journal produced a copy, spread it flamboyantly over the front page. Investigators found, the survey stated, that 27% of the 2,084 absentees could not be located at the addresses given, that the residences named turned out to be vacant lots, playgrounds, parks, cinema theatres, the post office. Some streets listed did not exist. A few WPAbsentees were found to be hopelessly intoxicated at home...
...last week's news was an oil name more famed than any of those indicted by the Government-Doheny. Up from the presidency of Petroleum Securities Corp. to the chairman's seat, which has been vacant since her husband died last year, moved the relict of Edward Laurence Doheny. As all oil men know, dark-haired, 6-year-old Mrs. Carrie Estelle Betzold Doheny can do business with the best of them. Her company was her husband's personal basket, founded long before the top blew off the Naval oil lease of Elk Hills. Today...
...look fixedly at the operator's right eye, and the operator stares fixedly at the subject's left eye, at the same time grasping his hands firmly. In a little while the operator's eye appears to shine brilliantly and the patient's expression becomes vacant. Dr. Cannon finds certain defects in this procedure: "If the patient is refractory and the hypnotist is tired, the hypnotist may be hypnotized by the patient. . . . The first sign of the hypnotism being reversed is very unpleasant...
...this was academic, Dr. Barnes's next move was not. When the congregation of Central North Broad Church announced it would follow Dr. Machen, Central North Broad was promptly locked up. Moderator Barnes declared its pulpit vacant, announced he would furnish a supply pastor on Sunday, ruled that, according to a U. S. Supreme Court decision, the church belonged not to the congregation but to the General Assembly. To those edicts the Machenites bowed. On Sunday 700 of Central North Broad's members worshipped with their pastor in Lu Lu Temple...