Word: absently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Based on a two-year study, the ICC decision was handed down by a 5-4 vote, with two Commissioners absent. Bitterly contested by the minority, the 80-page decision declared...
With Mayor McNair absent, the trustees proceeded to elect, as president of Carnegie Tech, Dean Robert Ernest Doherty of the Yale Engineering School. Howled the Mayor: "I wanted to vote for Dean Wright.* This fellow they've elected -I hear he's a Communist. He's been associated with Steinmetz and they're all Communists...
...days of fun. Against his trip was the fact that it meant postponing his recommendation for new taxes, which Congress was impatiently awaiting in order to perform its election-year duty of going home as quickly as possible. In favor of it was the fact that Secretary Morgenthau was absent attending the funeral of his mother-in-law, and the President's deep desire to be present in Cambridge when Harvard's Fly Club initiated his youngest son, John...
...died two years ago, of Marcella Sembrich who was Dusolina's teacher, of the late Daniel Mayer, the manager who started her on her career, made it his business to see that she read profitable books, helped her with her programs and her costumes, developed her taste. Absent also was Brother Vittorio, now a recognized composer studying in Italy on a Pix de Rome fellowship...
VIGILS - Siegfried Sassoon - Viking ($1.50). Of the British poets whom the War sent over the top, Siegfried Sassoon is one of the few survivors. As an officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers he served with such absent-minded gallantry that he was awarded the Military Cross, was recommended for the D. S. O. Then in 1917, because he considered that the War had degenerated into a senseless slaughter, he published a public protest, "in wilful defiance of military authority." Because he was a war-hero he was not court-martialed but hushed away into a mental hospital. The front line...