Word: vacantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last two years the University has had a considerable number of the most expensive rooms in the Houses left vacant. This consideration, together with the fact that part of the costs of the most recent units of the House Plan were paid out of University funds, is understood to account for the deficit. Since room rents for next year have been reduced, the University anticipates a still further fall in revenue next year...
...savings was a series of recommendations which Director Douglas asked to have attached to the bill as riders to give the President even greater powers as an economizer. Authority was sought for the President to: 1) retire Federal employes after 30 years' civil service and leave their jobs vacant; 2) furlough indefinitely on half pay any number of Army officers (the plan: to weed out about 3,000 and reduce the present personnel to 9,000); 3) cancel Government contracts, including air and ocean mail subsidies, and remake them on better terms; 4) eliminate the year...
...Houses have put full crews into the field; vacant positions will soon therefore, have to be filled, or combinations made. Last year five Houses were represented on the river, and Eliot House kept two or three crews on the river for the entire season...
...absence of Bancroft from first shell practice last week because of an injured knee left vacant the number 5 position, which was filled alternately by members of the second and third crews. Bancroft will be on the river in his regular position this afternoon at five o'clock...
Havana's Dr. Aristides Agramonte was long a survivor of Dr. Reed's bold associates. He died in 1931 shortly after being elected to preside over the Pan-American Congress at Dallas last week. The Congress kept a chair vacant for his memory...