Word: absently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pudgy little fingers that might better have been occupied in making mud-pies; humpty-dumpty farmyard animals with four toothpicks and a chunk of modeling clay; naive nursery etchings-graphs of the thought-rhythms of potentially delinquent minds-these, the charivari of most children's exhibitions were notably absent. Instead, one child, 6, a musician and a draughtsman who had already given a public concert, reproduced the impression made by the auditorium upon the mind of a performing pianist-vast, silent gulfs of listening space in which the black instrument buzzed like a fly in a funnel. Another virtuoso...
When the Glee Club paid farewell to Dr. A. T. Davison '06 at its annual dinner at the Harvard Club on last Thursday evening the University was first generally apprised of the fact that Dr. Davison would be absent from Cambridge on his sabbatical next year...
...physical needs. I do not ask for the same beverage as that used by Gargantua, but I should like to have our directors provide us with some good cold water in various handy places in the library. If this is not done, it may happen that a tired or absent minded student, leaning back in his chair and yawning noisily, will yell, to the disturbance of many: "A boire." Alex Chalufour...
Last night at the annual dinner of the University Glee Club in the Harvard Club the University paid its formal farewell to Dr. A. T. Davison '06, who will be absent from Cambridge on his sabbatical next year...
Their Majesties called upon bachelor President Gaston Doumergue at the Élysée and remained to luncheon. Among those present were Premier Painlevé, Foreign Minister Briand, Minister of Marine Borel, ex-President and Mme. Raymond Poincaré. Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux was tactfully absent. The King afterwards invested Premier Painlevé with the insignia of a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order...