Word: absentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oxygen could not have been produced by photosynthesis which can only occur in the presence of light because light was absent from the experiment which detected the oxygen, Barghoorn said. He added that water was present when the oxygen was produced...
There was a melancholy reminder of the change only a month ago, when James A. Farley was buried outside New York City. Farley, who as Franklin Roosevelt's political virtuoso helped create modern politics and government, was absent from the national convention for the first time since...
...hangings and a garden of potted palms and dra-caenas off to the side. In the second-floor admissions area, she was interviewed, not at a crowded public desk but in a small, tastefully decorated private office. Corridors were carpeted and traditional hospital smells and white walls were conspicuously absent. After Wein settled into her stylishly furnished, pastel-colored private room ($180 a day), the head nurse entered and cheerfully announced: "Carol, you have rights in this hospital and I want to explain them...
There are those who consider The Crucible Miller's best work. That honor, in my view, clearly belongs to Death of a Salesman, although The Crucible represents an attempt at a more exalted kind of Aristotelean tragedy. In the Salem play, rounded and shaded characters are mostly absent; Miller's moral position was so strong that he seemed able to deal only in blacks and whites. There is here an inescapable preachiness and an occasional failure of the diction to satisfy the demands of subject and context...
...Washington (on inflation): "A rat in the shape of a horse is not to be found at this time for less than ?200." A very young officer to his wife, after the battle of Princeton: "Oh, my Susan! It was a glorious day and I would not have been absent from it for all the money I ever expect to be worth...