Word: vacantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Muck whose conducting has been one of the few bright spots of recent festivals. The German orchestra with which Toscanini worked, whose language he did not know, grumbled at first over the almost superhuman demands he made upon them. Later they cheered him. Conductor Muck was mentioned for the vacant post, but most considered Widow Wagner's choice as inevitable. Muck is 71, Toscanini 63, but the difference in musical fire, vision, power and energy of the two maestros is far greater than the difference of eight years...
Peak of Army ambition is to become Chief of Staff; of ambition in the Marine Corps, to be Commandant. On Nov. 20 the office of Chief of Staff becomes vacant when age (64) forces the retirement of General Charles Pelot Summerall. The office of Marine Corps Commandant has been empty since the death last month of Maj.-General Wendell Cushing Neville. Last week President Hoover ended much muffled excitement within the services by picking two new chiefs...
Washington thereafter brimmed with rumor. Bets were even that the chairmanship would be vacant by Aug. 1. Many believed it would still require a public demand from President Hoover to get Mr. Huston out. Speculators selected Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio as his probable successor. To avoid a public explosion on the eve of an important campaign. Republican leaders strove to get the whole unpleasant to-do out of the headlines...
...vacant lot of 60 ft. by 120 ft. or more will do for the Tom Thumb Golf course. The outfit costs $2,000, and an additional sum (more than $1,000) is required for lighting, office and fence equipment. So far Mr. Carter has reaped royalties from about 5,000 courses, 150 of which were sold by the New York office alone during the past 60 days. Still slightly incredulous, he is amazed at the increasing backlog of unfilled orders...
...present the Carter course seems to have a monopoly in the new industry. Any small gasoline station proprietor or owner of a vacant lot could lay out a putting course with only a caddy's knowledge of the game. But Mr. Carter's advertisements warn: "Patent No. 1,559,520 controls and protects the construction, maintenance, sales and use of Putting Greens and Playing Surfaces of Cotton Seed Hulls or any comminuted flocculent vegetable material, either in a natural state or dyed to simulate grass, and with or without an admixture of binding substance...