Word: absently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blood is that when exposed to air it coagulates. This is a very necessary quality for when there is a lesion of a blood vessel, the blood issuing from the wound tends to clot, preventing further loss of blood. In certain persons this quality of the blood is absent, so that if they suffer even a slight wound they may readily bleed to death. The disease is known as hemophilia...
Captain R. A. Pinkerton '27, Alexander Shaw '28, and F. D. Stranahan '26, veterans of last year's team, are still available for these matches. W. H. White '28 will, however, be absent this fall while playing football...
Professor Merriman, who has been teaching history at the University since 1902, is not a novice at teaching Frenchmen. In 1914 and 1915 he was the Harvard lecturer at the provincial universities of France. He was again absent from the University during the war, when he served as Captain in the United States Army...
...absent member was the Rev. Mark A. Matthews, "Lion of the Northwest," veteran Fundamentalist...
...Rosie" had intelligent relatives. There was tall, cadaverous Joseph ("Old Joe") Rosenbaum, Cornell and Yale graduate, a mathematician who even cranked his automobile with the precision of a man bisecting a hypotenuse. There was tall, cadaverous Hyman ("Hymie") Rosenbaum, Pennsylvania graduate, another mathematician, a genius so absent-minded that the adolescent oafs he taught often mistook him for a "nut" at first. There was Harris Rosenbaum, Yale physicist, terse, timesaving, efficient. Later there was Joseph Rosenbaum II, Cornell botanist...