Word: vacanted
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There was one table almost vacant. I selected that, for I was not pleased with the appearance of the gentlemen at the others. It was very pleasant, - so quiet, - such a subdued light. "Bless me," said I, "this is not so dull a place after all." And I was soon deep in the "Inferno...
...Lampoon ceases to be altogether a college paper. Although it still retains the word "Harvard" on its titlepage, an effort will be made - as its editors announce - to "de-localize" it, and it is designed to have it fill, as far as possible, the place which has always been vacant in American journalism, - the place which is supplied in England by Punch...
...will not rely on the prestige of former successes to win future victories; and it is our further good fortune that six old men will sit in the next year's boat, and that seven veterans will guard the base-ball laurels twice won from Yale. The vacant places will indeed be hard to fill, but there is a host of material to pick from; and the impulse which our victories will give to athletics ought to enable Harvard to send out even a stronger crew and nine than any she has sent out for years...
...stared at me in a vacant way, and, as he drew from the leg of one of his high boots a suspicious-looking bottle, he muttered, "Sixteen hundred and seventy seven...
...class dissatisfied with the principles on which the other half ran the meeting of the class now recognize, after painful experience, the fact that arguments are of no avail. The next step in the matter will be taken by those who support the officers elect, who will fill the vacant offices from their own ranks. The rest of the class - whether that be a majority or a minority is not now known - will then probably take some independent action...