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Word: absently (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admirable job of collecting the loose ends of a class which is so scattered and undefined. It is smaller than Red Books Harvard men of the past remember, but it contains sections on all of the Houses open for '47 and a comprehensive section on activities so noticeably absent in '46's Red Book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Initial '47 Red Books Allotted to Navy Men | 2/20/1945 | See Source »

Hope for the Best (by William Mc-Cleery; produced by Jean Dalrymple & Marc Connelly) casts Franchot Tone -absent from Broadway since 1940 - as a famous columnist. He has 11,000,000 readers lapping up his harmless froth, but what he yearns after is to feed them politics and liberalize their thinking. Scared out of trying by his highbrow, reactionary fiancée, he finally borrows enough gumption from a sympathetic young girl (Jane Wyatt)- incidentally swapping fiancées while crossing his Rubicon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays In Manhattan, Feb. 19, 1945 | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

Married. Major Richard Ira Bong, 24, snub-nosed U.S. ace of aces (40 Jap planes); and Marjorie Ann Vattendahl, 21, teachers college graduate whose blown-up photograph glamorized his P-38; in Superior, Wis. Nine A.A.F. officers proxied for one absent wedding guest: ailing five-star General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: MILESTONES | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

When Judge Sullivan read his 18-page opinion, Montgomery Ward's $100,000-a-year chairman, stubborn Sewell Lee Avery, was absent from the courtroom. At the lush San Marcos Hotel in Chandler, Ariz., where he was resting, Avery called it "a great day for labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Avery's Great Day | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

...high percentage of absenteeism was reported during the movement of the various [draftee] units in Canada over the Christmas and New Year holidays. Of 15,600 draftees warned for overseas service, 7,800 were at one time overdue or absent without leave. . . . Approximately 6,300 are still unreported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: THE DOMINION: A.W.O.L. | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

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