Word: absently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Einstein's lasting astonishment, Americans were ready to idolize the shy professor with the eccentric look and demeanor that connoted "Genius." They read with fascination that money bored him (once he used a $1,500 check as a bookmark, then lost the book), that he was absent-minded (he once walked into the salon of a transatlantic liner wearing his pajamas), that his second wife, Elsa, once ate the orchids on her plate at a formal banquet, mistaking them for the salad...
...result could only be tedious and disastrously confusing. Her arrangement retains a circular form, opening and closing with the members of the wake gathered about the omnipresent coffin-cradle of Finnegan. She has made Shem the Penman spokesman for her piece, and although his antithetical brother Shaun is absent as an explicit character, he does appear in his incarnations of Ondt and Jaunty Jan during the H. C. Earwicker dream sequences. The theme of the river-mother, Anna Livia, is powerfully revealed in the washerwomen episode and successfully picked up and completed in the final scene, to round...
...everywhere, from the home (wife to husband: "I cook, wash dishes, keep house day after day and what do you do? Once a week you swagger in with a paycheck") to the college (president to professor: "Nonsense, Professor, you don't need a raise . . . You're too absent-minded to drive a car, too intelligent to want television, and too preoccupied to hear your wife complain"). From Little Acorns. Chicago-born Cartoonist Lichty has been making a living at a drawing board ever since he graduated from the University of Michigan ('29), after editing the college humor...
...help both in speed and efficiency. Wrote Wason: "The movements consisted of a rhythmical swaying of the trunk backwards and forward, with rapid folding of the ends of the papers and tapping and shaking of the soap. Rotation of the head was also observed. These movements were absent in new employees . . . however, the habit gradually developed after training. It was found that the greater the jigging the greater was the woman's efficiency . . . Rhythm is a help in any kind of repetitive work, and the rhythm in this occupation probably develops in an attempt to increase speed [since workers...
...Boston's North Station last week, at the annual meeting of the Boston & Maine Railroad, the most important man was not there. Absent was Wall Street Financier Patrick B. McGinnis, who won control of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad a year ago and now was out after control of the B. & M. But he dominated the meeting nevertheless. Even before B. & M. officials counted the proxies, they were ready to admit defeat. Both Board Chairman Edward S. French and President Timothy G. Sughrue resigned in expectation of a McGinnis victory; they were afraid that if they stayed...