Word: absently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three hours in which Germany's friends had time to telephone Berlin and attempt in London their most hectic wangles, the question whether Germany is guilty of violating the Locarno Pact was for the first time formally voted on by the League Council. The Councilman from Ecuador was absent, the Councilman from Chile abstained. ''Guilty!" said the eleven votes of Argentina, Australia, Britain, Denmark, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Spain and Turkey. No one voted "Not Guilty...
...paneled library of a huge, blue-shuttered Italianate villa on Baltimore's exclusive North Charles Street, ten grave, rich men sat down one evening this week for a long talk about money. Headed by Daniel Willard, and including among their absent members Walter Sherman Gifford and Newton Diehl Baker, their concern for the moment was not with the state of railroads, of telephones, of law or even of politics. As the Board of Trustees of Johns Hopkins University, it was their solemn duty to approve a plan of campaign which, when launched next week, will serve notice...
...Absent from his dinner last week was Harry Thurston Peck, who had retreated in disgrace to Stamford, Conn., where he unsuccessfully tried to make a living as a free lance, lost his mind, shot himself...
...Professors are worse drivers than their students," admitted Frank A. Goodwin, Register of Motor Vehicles in Massachusetts, as he went on to say that all the professors he had ever met had been so absent minded that he would never ride in the same car with them...
Vernon Struck, sparkplug of the Harvard five, was sick yesterday and absent from practice. It has not yet been decided whether he will be able to make the trip today...