Word: absently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...English, and Marshall has forgotten most of his French; so hardly a syllable passed between the table companions in the flickering candlelight, while Jeannette vigorously concentrated on her dinner (Consomme Camelia, Timbale Joinville, Jambon d'York, Baltimore Laitue Nivernaise, Mousse Cyrano, Fromages, Fruits). Maurice Thorez himself was conspicuously absent...
Donald C. Van Roosen '45; Captain-Manager of the Varsity, declared "the team as psychologically set as it has ever been." He pointed out that John Gay, who was absent from the Columbia match, will be in the saber lineup. Jay Levine, Captain of the Freshman team, said his team had "a pretty good chance" with but two losses, both to Worcester. Both teams spent a prolonged period in their final practice before the season's most important meet...
Commuters will be approached personally at Dudley, he said, requesting students who will be absent from their rooms during the day and who intend to contribute to leave the money with roommates of with the dining hall checker...
Shining Career. But Genaro was established as presidential bootblack. He bent over the shoes of stern Plutarco Elias Calles, of genial Emilio Portes Gil, of absent-minded Abelardo Rodriguez. He went on the palace payroll ($45 a month). Courtly Pasquel Ortiz Rubio sent the presidential limousine for him. President Cardenas bought him a specially made English car that he could drive himself. Avila Camacho paid off a $300 mortgage on his house...
...said the intruder. Vag had never seen him in his life before. "My very good friend." "I'm broke," replied Vag, out of absent minded instinct, to the knitted set of eyebrows which loomed menaeingly over an opened copy of "General Education in a Eroe Society...