Word: absently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Donald was employed by an English-language Chinese paper whose proprietor was subsequently secured by the Japanese. On receiving an order to take the pro-Chinese policy of this paper and make it pro-Japanese, Mr. Donald promptly printed his absent employer's order on the front cover of the next issue, together with his own resignation...
...action of the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports in approving the Pennsylvania game, leaves only Columbia, of the seven teams included in the Ivy League proposed by the undergraduate newspapers, absent from the Harvard schedule...
Speaking in place of the absent Coach Charles N. Proctor, Manager Richard Preston '37, welcomed the largest turn out of skiing candidates on record, as over 70 men met to discuss plans for the coming season...
Humor was not absent from the Court of Claims last week. When a particularly preposterous family tree had been reeled off in its entirety, the eminent King's counsel, Gavin Turnbull Simonds, observed with a discreet cough-quite as in Gilbert & Sullivan- "I fancy we have run into a bar sinister somewhere here...
Less than a year ago, Pearl Syden-stricker Buck published a sympathetic portrait of her mother called The Exile (TIME, Jan. 13). In that affectionate volume, Carrie Sydenstricker, sensible missionary and patient mother, far overshadowed her husband Andrew. He emerged as a zealous, absent-minded man who was constantly pushing deeper into China to gather converts of doubtful loyalty and understanding. Good, unquestioning, self-righteous, he caused Carrie more suffering than he knew. This week in another purely biographical volume that is the December choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club, Pearl Buck gets around to giving her father...