Word: absently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only about 600 guests showed up for the ceremonies at Vladislavsky Hall. One of the 400 empty seats had been assigned to U.S. Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt. Also absent were delegates from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Chicago, from Oxford and Cambridge, from universities in 13 other countries. Present from the U.S.: delegates from Boston University, Washington State College and Colorado University...
...Absent-minded professors, too, come in for their share of anecdotes. One brought in his laundry, and, an hour later called, begging that his false teeth, which had been included in the package, be brought to Logan Airport, where he was waiting to catch a plane. The savant enjoyed a comfortable dinner in Washington...
TIME'S editorial offices occupy the 28th and 29th floors of the TIME & LIFE Building in Rockefeller Center. They are plainly furnished and littered with paper. The prevailing atmosphere is tension, tempered by absent-minded civility. Until a lot of newspapermen got on TIME'S staff, the office boys used to whistle at their work; now they obey the 50-year-old newspaper taboo against whistling. On some evenings, still, an old Timer will call Matthews on the office phone and say: "Don't miss the sunset...
Though 44 years old, John Bull was also virtually new to Broadway, having been 43 years absent. On the whole, it seemed less rusty from time than the Gate seemed dusty from travel. Shaw's two-way joke about England and Ireland can get devilishly talky and even downright tedious. But certainly at its best John Butt is still impressive; whereas even at its best the Gate seems merely competent...
...easy to see how such a situation could arise. Nominations were made in January, 1944, when but three hundred and fifty of the Class of '46 were still in college. This narrowed down the possible choices. Though ballots were mailed out to absent members, and final tally came less than a month later, when but a handful of the mailed ballots had returned, and the remainder were still buried in scattered APO stations around the country. The V-12 unit in College effectively elected the '46 Committee and the unanimous V-12 membership on it seems to bear out this...