Word: vacantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adams House, which Mr. Harkness proposed should be torn down and rebuilt at his expense--the Houses were completed and occupied at the opening the term this autumn. Residence in them has been voluntary, yet rooms for only fifty-one students, out of seventeen hundred and thirteen, are now vacant; and these include the unfilled places of men who have withdrawn because of the depression or other causes, and of freshmen who, after being assigned rooms, have failed to win promotion and cannot occupy them...
...without sufficient stimulus to exert it, in a position where, having to pass for graduation a general examination on their field of work, they would be tempted to do it with distinction--a result now in large measure attained. The examination involved the use of tutors to cover the vacant spaces between courses, and to correlate the different parts of the subject. But this system has been discussed so often in these reports that it seems needless to do so again here. Suffice it to say that it was adopted first by the Division of History, Government and Economics...
...employer's son had shot him in the head. A mob of 2,000 turned out to see rough-&-ready justice done. They strung up the blackamoor, blinded by bandages, to a tree on the court house lawn. After 20 min. he was cut down, taken to a vacant lot, saturated with gasoline, set afire. Maryland, which has lynched 13 Negroes and one White in the past 45 years, had enjoyed a clean record since...
...regime, H. W. Clark '23 was made Assistant Director of Athletics and Mr. Fradd will occupy a corresponding position in the field of physical education. Daniel Kelly in 1928 resigned from a position which more or less corresponded to Mr. Fradd's present one, but the place was left vacant...
Familiar to most big cities is the fly-by-night exhibit of gruesome or sleazy photographs which opens in a vacant store, boldly advertised as an "appeal to justice" or a "lesson in morality." Usually the pictures are unpublished newsphotos of current crime. The patron may be lured in by "free admission," then coaxed to pay 25^ to see an extra-ripe display behind a curtain; or he may be held up at the exit to contribute to a "fund for the impoverished victims." Into such a "crime prevention" exhibit on Los Angeles' South Main Street two months...