Word: absently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Study & Work. Half of Antioch's 650 students were absent last week, for Antioch divides its undergraduates into A and B groups, sends the A's off for five or ten weeks while the B's study on the campus. Then the groups swap places. Because study time is thus interrupted, the course lasts six years, though bright students may finish in five. Antioch was the first Liberal Arts college to adopt this co-operative plan, previously employed in the University of Cincinnati Engineering School...
...able and efficient in business. She seldom goes to their Carolina meetings but always attends in New York (the Foundation and other Duke interests occupy three floors of No. 535 Fifth Ave.) unless she is off in Newport, where she maintains a handsome establishment, or in Europe. (She was absent from last week's dedication. Daughter Doris attended, appeared bored, left after a short while.) Personage of a world far wider than the Duke institutions have yet become, she is respected by her husband's executors as his most personal representative left on earth. Yet they can feel their work...
...Notably absent from the exhibition was the storm centre of modern architecture, the model for $250,000,000 Radio City. The designers were still tinkering with it last week. Prominently present, however, was bristle-headed, kinetic Raymond Hood's model for the scarlet-blue-&-gold Electrical Building for the Chicago World's Fair. Among Norman farmhouses for Pennsylvania tycoons, Spanish palaces for Hollywood directors, French Gothic cathedrals for Idaho Baptists, critics were more interested in Delano & Aldrich's design for the new U. S. Embassy on the Place de la Concorde, Paris...
...return of C. J. Cassedy '33 to his old position as stroke of one of the three University boats, after having been absent for a week with a sprained ankle, leaves only one man on the sick list of the first squad. W. B. Bacon '33, reported a slight cold yesterday, and was substituted at stroke by F. F. Colloredo-Mannsfeld '32, who has been rowing with the squad for several weeks, although he is disqualified from intercollegiate competition during the coming season...
Gray Shadow. A man who has made a practice of murdering folk and claiming their insurance money is mysteriously called the Gray Shadow. When an eccentric recluse is quietly interred in an English country churchyard, his absent ward, the insurance company's detectives and finally the police suspect foul play. They study the circumstances surrounding his burial and in doing so they find the Gray Shadow. The proceedings are not very scarey...