Word: absently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many another potent Couch friend attended the stag house party but the Press was conspicuously absent. A guard on the bridge from the shore to the island kept the unwanted away. Burning with curiosity, newshawks tried long-distance calls without success. Nor would the great guests be interviewed as they arrived or departed. Their host kept insisting...
...dried by passing it through an atomized spray. By 1915 he had recruited a partner and enough capital to start Carrier Engineering Corp. in Newark, N. J. In 1922 he invented a centrifugal refrigerating compressor which has been a potent factor in building Carrier prestige. He works hard, is absent-minded about meals and haircuts, likes to hunt and fish. In 1929 his companies did nearly $8,000,000 worth of business, earned. $672,000. Last year there was a deficit of $673,000. This year volume is up nearly...
...totally incapable of seeing their work in proper perspective. They are practicioners rather than theorists. What little information they have to offer can often be more profitably gained from the careful reading of a departmental pamphlet. The plan is further complicated by the fact that men must be absent from their college studies at the beginning of a new semester...
Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud formations shut out the sky and cloak the whole land in a tent that had the earth for its floor. Absent is the late pale green of heaven, the distant rims of the world are suffused into the gathering twilight. The land is barren and fruitless except for the smiling champaigns of flowers blotched intermittently throughout all the wastes. There is no wind, or breath of air, or life along this unemancipated expanse of soil. For the world and all its singing birds and budding trees and songs and mountains and summits...
Although he has permission to absent himself from the trial if the strain be comes too much for his health, old Samuel Insull taxied or bussed over from the Hotel Seneca to the courthouse every morning before ten. He submitted grace fully to daily photographing and interviewing, nodded to friends in court. Said his old protegee, Singer Mary McCormic, from the spectators' benches: "This looks like comic opera to me." Far from comic to old Insull, however, is the Government's threat: a maximum sentence of 50 years in jail and $250,000 fine. If acquitted, he will be tried...