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Word: absently (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...informant: "This New Hampshire play for Eisenhower has turned out sour and that we'll admit." James ("Scotty") Reston of the New York ("We Like Ike") Times was impressed by Taft's "aggressive campaign." He found it more effective than the politicking in behalf of the absent Eisenhower. Wrote Reston: ". . . What does Taft have that Ike doesn't have? The answer seems to be: 'Nothing-but he has it in New Hampshire.' " As for Truman, Reston reported that the "best opinion," which he did not identify, was that the President would win. The Fair-Dealing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fried Crow, à la Mode | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

Consistent character is absent from the play as a whole as well. Farce, comedy, and boredom succeed each other slickly at random. Visual gags, political "humor," pseudo-Shavian epigrams, and Joe Miller favorites mingle democratically with a handful of really comic situations...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: Affairs of State | 3/12/1952 | See Source »

This week, with the two officers still absent, the district court handed down a judgment by default against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Who's Corrupt? | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

Palm trees, flamingoes, and green grass were conspicuously absent yesterday, but nearly 70 men showed up at Briggs Cage anyway to launch the northern equivalent of spring training for the varsity and freshman baseball teams. A large portion of the first practice of the year was devoted to hitting, with both squads taking their cuts against the batting machine and "live" hurlers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nine Begins Practice | 3/4/1952 | See Source »

Fieser's personality overflow into every part of his life. In class he is the absent-minded professor who, to the amusement of his class, frequently loses track of ten carbon atoms in his blackboard equations. In his laboratory, he is a craftsman, who runs through experiments with precision technique. He wipes his hands on the white towel that perennially hangs from his hip pocket, he blows clouds of cigarette smoke toward his embryo compounds, and blanks his butts in a water faucet. Outside the lab, he writes books on arson and lectures in all parts of the world...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtzman, | Title: Candles, Cats & Chem 20 | 2/19/1952 | See Source »

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