Word: absently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Close margins of victory that have highlighted recent intramural ball games were conspicuously absent yesterday as Winthrop trounced Adams in softball, 12 to 1, and the Lowell Baseball team whipped Kirkland...
Lawrence S. Thompson's Notes on Bibliokleptomania, an informative "review of centuries of thievery" which shows that neither age nor instruction can reform the absent-minded book borrower or save the true bibliophile from the temptation to pick up and pocket volumes that catch his fancy. One of history's most eminent bibliokleptomaniacs seems to have been Cardinal Pamfili (who later became Pope Innocent X). Charged one day with book-lifting from a private library, the book-loving Cardinal denied the charge with such fury that-the stolen volume fell from beneath his robes with a resounding crash...
...appeared tired. The laughs with which he greeted first news of the strong criticism of his speeches from both Democratic and Republican Congressmen were absent as he gave his prepared reply to news correspondents...
...Conspicuous among the guests were Florida's Senator Claude Pepper and Elliott Roosevelt, frequent Truman critics. Conspicuously absent: Henry Wallace. A few hours before dinner time, he had left town for New York, explaining that he was too busy getting ready for his departure this week for Europe...
...Freshman or Sophomore in good standing but not on the Dean's List who is absent from his last college exercise before or his first college exercise after the Christmas or April recess will be placed on probation for a period of time to be determined by the Administrative Board...