Word: absenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard, and Gage of Yale. Now Allen is definitely out of the running, and rumor has it that Gage is also suffering from a recurrence of an old knee injury received during the winter season. On Saturday, he was seen on crutches in New Haven, and he has been absent from track practice since. A telegram received last night from Yale, however, declared that he was in running shape, and would be able to compete tomorrow. But, in any case, it now seems that the burden of the race will fall on Chapman and Allen of Yale while Kane will...
...picture in indeed a family affair. Lottie Pickford, absent from the screen for several years, plays devoted handmaiden to her sister, while Allan Forrest, Lottie's husband, portrays the gallant lover who rescues noble Dorothy from the intriguing circle that would marry her off in the approved fashion of historical drama. Mary undertook the play, as she expressed it, to save herself from "being strangled in her own curls." More dramatic than usual, she has several powerful scenes with Clare Eames, who plays her favorite role of Queen Elizabeth with versatile sinuosity, as one born to make history...
Debevoise, regular first man on the second tennis team, played number six for the University yesterday in place of Harrington, who was absent because of an injured foot...
...Moran, who hit three times in three trips to the plate, and Hunt, who hit twice in three chances, were the stars of the game. In this game, the bad fielding that had marked the 12 to 9 defeat by Brown 1927, in an earlier game, was noticeably absent. The Brown game was hopelessly lost in spite of Exeter's heavy hitting, by seven miscues...
...other hand, men like Arnold Bennett who delight in beautiful and expressive hand writing find a fascination in peh and ink quite absent from the mechanical sameness of the machine. But such artists would not be the despair of their section-men; their writing is legible as well as beautiful. To the instructor who has the misfortune to have some dozens of reports of these to correct, the typewriter if he can persuade his students to use it proves an unqualified blessing. And the instructor's gratitude for finding a read able production cannot fail to reach perhaps unconsciously...