Word: absently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Convention opened with a few well Hoover-chosen words from Washington; then came many another greeting radioed from absent speakers in distant lands, on distant seas. During the long-distance conversations there was heard the loud popping of a champagne cork. No illegal pop was popped, however, as the report proceeded from the Berlin hotel of Ernst Filsinger, head of the Export Managers' Club of New York. Exporter Filsinger told the delegates that he was very sorry not to be in Baltimore with them. Then he made his champagne cork pop, thus testifying to the miracles of modern science...
...race that L. L. Wadsworth '30, and E. L. Belisle '31, had been selected to compete for the berth of University coxswain. Five coxswains have been vying for the helmsmain's position, but the choice has now narrowed down to these two, although Richard Kimball '31, who has been absent through illness during the past week, will have another chance at the job when he returns...
Said one male: "It is notorious that women are weak in teaching subjects like mathematics or science, from which human interest is absent. Men alone can attune their minds to the minds of boys...
...second day of the trial, Saint Gandhi was allowed to remain away from court. Absent, he was fined one rupee (36¢) which his lawyer refused to pay. As always happens when the Mahatma is fined?and invariably refuses to pay?an unidentified "friend" stepped briskly up and laid down the requisite rupee...
Scientific boxing was somewhat absent from the trials of the annual University tournament which were held last night; but all the contestants went at each other with murder in their eyes, and all in all furnished some exciting three-round bouts which kept the gallery of 300 people in a constant uproar. Seven matches were staged; the winners, together with those who drew byes yesterday, will square off in the finals on Thursday to decide the championships...