Word: vacantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Veterans Administration Dental Service had a new chief. Dr. Bion R. East, 63, dean of Columbia University's School of Dental and Oral Surgery since 1945, was appointed last week to a job vacant since the death last October of Dr. M. M. Fowler. Next month he will take over one of the least publicized and most expensive operations in the vast ($7,001,514,365-a-year) Veterans Administration programs...
...over the U.S., which had been remarkably vacant since the last of the flying saucers wheeled off and vanished (TIME, July 21, 1947), was suddenly full of whizzing lights and large shining objects. A pair of Eastern Air Lines pilots saw the first-some kind of wingless plane with two rows of lighted windows and a plume of red flame at its tail. Then two CAA employees saw a "gigantic silvery ball" floating over Yakima, Wash...
...weeks at the Children's Aid Society summer camp, 12-year-old Mike Kivatisky, of Manhattan's upper East Side, politely declined. He explained that in Manhattan he could swim at one of the city's pools, play baseball in Central Park or a nearby vacant lot, get up when he wanted to. Said Mike: "Everything I can do at camp, I can do right down here. But here I can do it oftener...
...takes over was left vacant by Clint Anderson, who decided some time ago to run for Senator from New Mexico. It was the third Cabinet change in the past six months. The others: Jesse Donaldson, up from letter carrier to Postmaster General; Charles Sawyer, Ohio lawyer, to Secretary of Commerce...
Three days after the inauguration, Louisiana's 72-year-old Senator John H. Overton-who had refused to back Earl in the election-died in Bethesda Naval Hospital. His vacant Senate seat gave the Longs an easy and unexpected means of strengthening their political hold on Louisiana. Governor Earl prepared to appoint a friend-probably a Monroe oil millionaire named William C. Feazel-on condition that the appointee would not run for the office after the interim term expired. In November, having achieved the Senate's 30-year minimum age, Nephew Russell would run, with every chance...