Word: vacantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Wachter, who has guided the Freshman courtmen for the past two years, will coach only the University quintet. Bond, who takes on a triple assignment, will fill this fall the position left vacant when Casey was chosen to succeed Arnold Horween '21 as head coach...
...line caught in the wrecked plane, dropped 1,000 ft. before he struggled loose. Brice was momentarily stunned, said later he was only dimly aware of flinging himself from his plane and jerking open his parachute. Both landed safely. The planes injured no one: Sanderson's landed in a vacant lot, Brice's on the cornice of a public school building, beyond which several children were playing...
There was another story. The day after Bethlen's resignation, 18-year-old Archduke Otto of Hungary disappeared from Steenockerzeel Castle in Belgium. All night long excited Hungarian reporters were routing royalists out of bed to learn if Otto was attempting to seize Hungary's vacant throne. They received nothing but spluttering denials. Eventually Otto and his mother, the ex-Empress Zita, were discovered in Switzerland...
...Brooklyn police found a moldy, ornate coffin in a vacant lot. Inside the coffin was a card. On the card: "Spindel Zeus, No. 202, expired...
...dangerous 897-mile hop over the Kurile Islands to Nemuro (pop. 5,000) at the northwest extremity of Hokkaido. While the Lindberghs waited, Nemuro made ready for the ceremony which was to herald their arrival. An influx of newshawks, cameramen and inquisitive Japanese left only two hotel rooms vacant in the town. These were reserved for the flyers. Volunteers from the Young Men's Christian Association planned to stay up, all night if need be, till the plane was reported passing Yetorofu Island. Then rockets would be sent up to welcome the flyers into the harbor. Places were reserved...