Word: absenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Professors L. O. Cummings '09, and Ralph Beatley, and Assistant Professor Bancroft Beatley '15, have been granted sabbatical leaves during the academic year of 1929-30. Professor Cummings will be on leave during the first half of the coming academic year, while Professors Ralph and Bancroft Beatley will be absent during the second half of the year...
...Arcy Grieg, 29; Giovanni Monti, 29; Rema Cadringher, 26; Tomaso dal Molin, 27. Lining Solent spithead were at least 1,000,000 spectators -the Prince of Wales on a yacht with his crony, rich Philip Sassoon, Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald with foreign ambassadors on the aircraft carrier Argus. Absent from race and show was Alford Joseph Williams, U. S. contestant, who had to withdraw because his racing plane would not leave the trial waters of the Severn River, Md. (TIME, Aug. 26). Around the diamond-shaped course the six planes raced. Monti and Cadringher were forced down. Atcherly, favorite...
...Absent from his august seat was Arthur J. O'Keefe, monster (300 lb.) Mayor of New Orleans. The tribulations of the strike had worn him to a frazzle, threatened him with a nervous breakdown. On "leave of absence" he had gone to his summer home at Bay St. Louis, Miss., 50 miles away, to loll in the warm waters of the Gulf...
...accomplishments was his revision in 1913 of New York's state banking laws, which have not been amended since. His boast was that no private bank had failed since the revision became effective. However, the law does not cover all forms of banking. While he was absent digging in the Southwest, the unsupervised banking house of Clarke Bros., Manhattan, failed for $5,000,000 (TIME, July...
...deepest bass of atheism are to be found in this collection of short thoughts. Some of the contributors, willing or unwilling, are Poets Whitman, Byron, Job, Swinburne, Prosaists Santayana, Nietzsche, Plato, the Huxleys, Clarence S. Darrow. The collection cannot be called exhaustive since so many other "anti-religionaries" are absent-notably Voltaire...