Word: absently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fading fast, and plenty of evidence had piled up in Paris that much of what Socialist Premier Blum has been doing is to attempt a series of risky experiments, however noble. Upon that record, could Finance Minister Auriol succeed in floating 104 billions in bonds? From the box of absent Speaker Edouard Herriot, who was abed with bronchitis, the Premier's charming wife, vivacious Mme Blum, decided to sit through the final Chamber debate on whether to issue the bonds. Just behind her sat the wife of Conservative Deputy Paul Bietrix, and the speech Premier Blum was making gradually...
...workers, who in Europe are not as migratory and mobile a class as in the U. S.; 3) a deeply ingrained thrift or savings motive . . . and 4) in recent years, strongly financed central co-operative wholesales able to promote new local societies or assist struggling ones. These factors are absent or relatively absent in the U. S. today...
...film is done entirely in techni-perfect, the previously annoying eye strain is pleasantly absent. So far, photographers seem to have been unable to avoid an exaggeration of color, but many of the mountain shots are exceedingly well done...
Kipling was in South Africa when the Boer War began, and he stayed through it, enjoyed himself hugely. Very popular with the troops, he raised quarter of a million pounds for them from the royalties of some popular verses (The Absent-Minded Beggar). Very British about the Boers, he recalls that De Wet with 250 men, Smuts with 500, were handy fighters; "but, beyond that, got muddled." After the war he took a house for his family at Cape Town, next to Cecil Rhodes's, wintered there for seven years. Kipling's best-known poem, If,* which...
Registration reminded one of Memorial Hall in September, except that hawkers crying "Buy the Lampoon" and "Read the Advocate" were absent. Not even Max Keezer stood outside and smiled patiently. Students from distant lands held maps and gazed about Plympton Street as if it were the "dead end" of Cambridge...