Word: absently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frail woman cries quickly that she is ill and for that very trick lives longer than man. Hygienist Letitia Denny Fairfield of London* has just completed analysis of 900 consecutive cases of illness among London school teachers. She finds that the women were absent for illness twice as long as were the men of the same occupational groups. The difference was not due to maladies peculiar to women, but included those such as common colds, influenza, lung infections. Nervous diseases incapacitated women three times as much as men. But rheumatism and diseases of the joints affected both sexes in almost...
...Ormiston, adept operator of the Angelus Temple radio, unaccountably absent for some weeks, was likewise present at Los Angeles last week, but was not communicative as to where he had been. His wife recently sailed for Australia after filing divorce papers in which the name of Evangelist McPherson is bruited to be conspicuous...
...first time last year. The author is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an honorary member of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, Scotland, and of numerous other scientific societies. During the first half of last year, Professor Osterhout was absent from the University, during which time he conducted plant experiments in Bermuda...
...necessity for all subscribers to call for their albums on one of these days, since only one more sale will take place in addition to these. This sale will be held during Commencement week, the precise date to be announced later, for the benefit of subscribers who are necessarily absent this week. A few extra copies have been printed for men who have not yet subscribed. These will be placed on sale today and will be distributed to the first comers...
Usually we take delight in the Inkling page, but this time we felt rather disappointed. The authors of the longer prose pieces, for their part, have mostly directed their efforts at the University, an excellent thing, for supposedly they know it well. And after all, a place filled with absent-minded professors and collegiate sheiks are distinctly strained, but the Tribute to a Passing Profile by an Artist Who Could Draw Only Full Faces is a pleasing fancy...