Word: absently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fallen Angel. In Seattle, absent-minded John P. Angel drove his car into a service station, stepped out, discovered too late that he was eight feet aloft on a grease rack...
...supposed financial efficiency move last spring, the VA announced that daily attendance records should be kept for veterans studying with government aid, that colleges should report when a veteran has been absent for five days, and that a total of class cuts be sent in at the end of every term...
...Reader Campbell is right: the absent-minded Prime Minister's hat is going left...
Although the "Handicap" is open to anyone in the University most interest will focus on the six harriers who will be starting from scratch. They are Ardan Albee '50, Bill Baker '50, Jack Cogan '50, Vince Moriarty '47, Paul Friedrich '49, and Charley Worth '47. Absent from this list will be Captain Huna Rosenfeld '46, Bill O'Connor '49, Herby Pratt '46, and Frank Gurley...
...that the kind of discussion [in the Great Books groups] is much different from the impression given. In a discussion whose single dominant character is that no one knows very much about the book under consideration, the absence of an informed person usually means that . . . intellectual humility is also absent. What usually happens is that people say, in a very solemn voice, things they would not dream of saying anywhere else...