Word: absented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't expect much," concurred Kosch, who has been absent from many practices in the second half of this season due to her knee injury...
...absence, she reasoned, meant that the city had long since become uninhabited. But Wood, an ancient-pottery expert now at the University of Toronto, argues that Kenyon's excavations were made in a poorer part of the city, where the expensive imported pottery would have been absent in any case. And he says that other pottery, dug up in Jericho in the 1930s, was common...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences offers to prospective undergraduates: "If you prize participation above all else--Without special regard for natural or trained talent--choose a college that adopts a familial attitude (on the family softball team, all the members are entitled to play). Competition is never absent in university colleges...
...social class as a subject in English painting. Rowlandson, who was eight when Hogarth died, continued the tradition, with an equal gusto but greater humor. The dark side of Hogarth, his capacity for moral rage, is largely missing in Rowlandson, and his interest in art theory is entirely absent. The biggest difference of all was that Rowlandson had none of Hogarth's ambition for major categories of art, not just history painting, but oil painting itself. He was perfectly content with pen and watercolor. But his mastery of them was complete, and it shows everywhere: in the supple energy...
...Notably absent from the debate was former U.S. attorney William F. Weld '66, considered a front-runner in the bid to receive the Republican party nomination at its statewide convention in March. According to campaign manager Ray Howell, Weld was obligated to attend a previously scheduled fund-raiser in Worcester...