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Word: absently (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the beginning of the term, the John Reeders have been completely absent from the College scene. Yesterday, even Associate Dean Watson's office was unable to locate a single member of the political group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reed Club Disappears From University Scene | 10/5/1950 | See Source »

...went in as halfbacks; and Jerry Bitz became safety man. Thus, Ossman, who apparently is being groomed for considerable service as a line-backer this year, was the only man who was not replaced. Kane came up from the junior varsity to fill in for Bob Stargel, who was absent from practice, and the injured Aruie Horween...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Eleven Scrimmages Jayvees | 9/29/1950 | See Source »

...dissenter (New York's Marcantonio being absent): Pennsylvania's Republican Robert Rich, who for 13 years has been rising regularly in the House to demand after each appropriation, "Where are we going to get the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Billions & Billions | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

This week, with the Liberal judges conspicuously absent, bulky, cold-eyed Laureano Gómez was sworn in before nine of the 16 members of the Supreme Court. In his inauguration speech, in the Salón Eliptico of the Capitol, Gómez praised U.S. action in Korea, and promised Colombians reconstruction of their country "on firm and austere bases." The ending of his speech was apt: "We men are only blades of grass in the hands of God. May His omnipotent hand save Colombia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Blades of Grass | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

Some of the pictures (with titles like The Red Sun Is Gnawing at the Spider) looked like the absent-minded doodles of a preoccupied businessman. They were crammed with little stars, half moons, circles, eyes, teeth and amorphic blobs loosely knit together with wandering black lines. There were also sculptures and such: highly polished pear-sized bronzes and "objects" made of bricks, rusty wire and old bones. All these things were produced by Joán Miró, a Spanish-born painter-sculptor who has long been a fashionable exponent of all that is doodliest in modern art (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Boiling Internally | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

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