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Word: absently (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Associated Press, chief rival of the U. P. Its Washington chief protested to the Senate, claiming the right to publish executive session proceedings, implying that the United Press report of the Lenroot poll was not accurate. The only inaccuracy formally complained of had to do with two absent Senators. Nevertheless the A. P., in self defense, kept belittling its rival's scoop. This not-very-sporting A. P. letter brought mumbles of derision from Senators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Senate v. Press | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...youthful banking precedent. National City's Board Chairman Charles Mitchell was head of National City Co. at 39 and of National City Bank at 44. National City's President Gordon Sohn Rentschler was 43 when (TIME, April 8) he took office. And Robert Livingston Clarkson, now absent because of illness, became president of Chase National last year at the same age that Mr. Steffan is today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Young Executive | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...went with pleasure, houses where he seemed to find a solace in the neighborhood of his kind. But human beings were an exceptional luxury. He had never learned to expect them. They never became necessities of his daily life, and I doubt if he missed them when they were absent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Idiosyncracies of Professor Sophocles, Famous Harvard Scholar, of Last Century Narrated by Professor Palmer | 5/14/1929 | See Source »

...familiar names are absent from the list of members for next season: Florence Easton, soprano, has asked for a year's rest; Titta Ruffo, baritone, has gone into the "talkies"; Feodor Chaliapin will not return until season after next; Marion Talley is retiring" to a farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Metropolitan Line-up | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

Professor E. B. Hill, '94, of the Music Department will be on sabbatical leave for the first half of 1929-30. Professor A. K. Porter, William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts, and W. C. Heilman, '00, Lecturer on Music, will each be absent on leave during the second half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HENRI GUY COMES HERE AS LECTURER | 5/10/1929 | See Source »

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