Word: absenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life. As an Active Member, I promise to be true to all my duties, to be present at and take some part, aside from singing, in every meeting, unless hindered by some reason which I can conscientiously give to my Lord and Master, Jesus Christ. If obliged to be absent from the monthly consecration meeting, I will, if possible, send an excuse for absence to the Society...
...Joyce Broderick, counselor of the British Embassy (representing absent Ambassador Sir Esmé Howard), who received a stirring ovation from the congress, told the delegates that "the difficulties which naturally present themselves to the accomplishment of all you desire will be very quickly overcome, insofar as the British Government can accomplish that...
...Knoxville, Tenn., counsel for the defense-John Randolph Neal of Dayton, chief; associates Clarence Darrow and Bainbridge Colby-formulated plans Associate Counsels Dudley Field Malone and Charles H. Strong (Secretary of the N. Y. City Bar Association, appointed as "observer" by the Unitarian Laymen's League) were absent. The defense made known that it would seek not only to test the exact legal issues of the case-i. e., the constitutionality of the anti-Evolution law-but also public education in science through the testimony of eleven eminent scientists. One of this eleven-Dr. Henry Fairfieldl Osborn...
Britain has, including the Air Force, 250,000 men in the regular Army, of whom one half are always absent in India and the Colonies. The Army Reserve, which has a normal strength of 120,000 men, is only 99,000 .strong. The Territorial Army, recruited for home defence and trained as their civil employment will permit, numbers less than 148,750, the number for which provision has been made. The maximum strength of the British Army cannot be more than...
...resources. A final automobile collection will be made next Friday, when each of the collectors will be visited, and the books which have been gathered in their rooms taken to Phillips Brooks House. Lawrence Coolidge '27, Librarian of the Association, has requested all collectors who expect to be absent from Cambridge before Friday to leave the doors of their rooms unlocked, or to leave the books which have been contributed to them to the janitor in charge of their building...