Word: absently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short, labor may bring a reasonableness, notably absent in 1946, to the bargaining table. And as most companies, even those in the red for most of the year, were finally making money at year's end, management too was ready to give a little. So the new round of demands might be resolved without 1) another round of strikes, and 2) price rises of durable goods. If that happened, then the recession might turn out to be no more than the reasonable downward adjustments in prices to be expected as supply met demand in a free economy. The consumers...
...These absent-minded students provide the bureau with it's least interesting material. Although nothing really sensational has ever turned up, there are such diverse articles there now as an old mortarboard, several neckties, and an assortment of sweaters, aigrette lighters and cases. "Last year we had a kitten in here, but no one ever claimed it," Miss Delano confides, "so we finally had to get rid of the thing...
...absent newsmen and politicos had gathered elsewhere, in Room 331 of the Morrison Hotel. There smart, ulcer-ridden little Jake Arvey, the new boss of the old Kelly machine, was introducing the Democrats' candidate to succeed Ed Kelly as mayor: a husky businessman, Martin Kennelly...
...optimism which marked the end of the General Assembly's second session was founded not so much on the basis of work done as on the atmosphere of amicability and reasonableness which characterized its closing weeks. Hopes that the frictions that had plagued the Foreign Ministers' Conferences would be absent at Flushing were dashed as soon as the Assembly passed the back-slapping preliminaries and settled down to business. The same old demands and accusations were dragged from delegates' dispatch cases and presented "de novo." The same unwillingness to compromise was evident. Stalemate seemed likely...
...Absent from the collegiate scene for five years, the Hasty Pudding Club's famed musical comedies will be resumed this spring. With a Harvard premiere set for sometime in March, the troupe will hit the boards in an eight city barn-storming tour during Easter vacation...