Word: filled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occupying single seats will fill most of sections 33, 34, and 35. Beyond that, group reservations are placed as near as possible to the center of the field. The ticket office recognizes the right of each man to have two good seats for a game, but after that it draws the line. If you want four seats for a game, you will have to take two of them out near the goal line. Before you get these extra two, you would have to wait until all of the other two-ticket applications had been filled...
...death of Admiral Gary T. Grayson last year, she was urged to fill his position as national chairman. She had declined many times before, declined again. Her reason: "If there ever arises any doubt about the conduct of the Red Cross or its finances, investigators might be inclined to go easy with a woman. A man would have to accept a merciless inquiry.'' Norman H. Davis accepted the post, and Mabel Boardman remained secretary...
...Rockford. Made up like Bingo cards, they have five rows of five spaces each, with tune titles instead of numbers. As the studio orchestra plays its string of some 20 tune choruses, listeners are supposed to identify and check off the titles on their cards. First one to fill a line across rushes to the telephone, dials a special number, shouts: "Musico!" Any single line filled may win a bag of groceries. Specially-designated "Cash" lines may win up to $100. For last week's big game over WGN, 1,100,000 listeners held cards, kept 25 National...
...sell for only $7 to $8 more. Rail mills are buying scrap to go into rail selling for only $14 more. Small steel companies, buying nearly all their scrap have already passed $5 of this scrap advance on to their customers, are unable to get enough raw material to fill orders even at this advanced price. Scrap is one material Europe has actually bought heavily...
Second, Mr. Conant may intend to expand the ranks of the associate professors by the appropriate number sometime in the future. However, he would fill these new positions by new men coming up from below--men who are as yet lost in the maze of instructorships or who have not yet arrived at Harvard--instead of by choosing from among the ten assistant professors. Then in effect he is saying that he expects to find better men for these jobs in the future than he can find at present among...