Word: absently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reply I inform you that Mexico has been absent from your high organization due to causes apart from any lack of the spirit of cooperation and immediately accepts the reparation you offer.* She therefore accepts membership in the League on the terms you announce, and offers a loyal spirit of friendship...
...paying woman passenger on the Graf. She flew to Rio de Janeiro for the trip back aboard the DO-X. Said experienced Mrs. Adams: "You could hardly tell you were flying. The noise of the motors did not intrude unless you opened the port holes. Vibration also was notably absent. The cabins were spacious and comfortable...
...business is good in the business world the U. S. Navy has to advertise with gaudy posters and man its recruiting stations with nattily dressed sailors to tempt the satisfied civilian. Many recruits, once in, get out by the simple expedient of going and staying A. W. 0. L. (absent without leave). For long-continued absence-without-leave the Navy has a harsher name: Desertion. The penalty in peacetime may be 30 days bread and water; in wartime it is death. In 1927, 1,092 men deserted the Navy. Since then the number has steadily declined: in 1928 there were...
...Schweinitz (ophthalmology), Chevalier Jackson (bronchoscopy), William Williams Keen (surgery), all of Philadelphia; Drs. Howard Atwood Kelly (gynecology, another Johns Hopkins founder) and William Holland Wilmer (ophthalmology), both of Johns Hopkins; Dr. William Hallock Park, Manhattan immunologist. Of the 19 living past presidents of the American Medical Association, nine were absent from all the jury's lists of "great doctors...
...George Washington was Representative Henry ("Light Horse Harry") Lee of Virginia who used it during his funeral oration before the Senate and the House of Representatives. †In the Capitol rotunda hangs Painter John Trumbull's version of the surrender, with Washington in the background, Cornwallis absent...