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Word: absently (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since most courses are shared with graduate students, competition is heavy; but the quality of instruction and high degree of contact with faculty case the road a bit. Tutorial, however, is absent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Engineering Sciences | 4/28/1950 | See Source »

...review committee had bluntly reported that the loan would be "largely a bail-out of investors and certain creditors." Furthermore, out of RFC's five directors, the loan had been approved by a mere two-to-one vote (a fourth director was absent, while RFChairman Harley Hise abstained from voting because a distant cousin is married to a Texmass official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Texmass Mess? | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...worn man, seriously ill, last week quietly injected himself into Washington's wild-swinging brawl over the State Department. Arthur Vandenberg, the Republicans' leading expert on foreign policy, had been absent from the Senate floor for six weeks. Slowly recuperating from a lung operation (TIME, Oct. 10), he was forced to spend long hours in bed every day. While he was out of action, and partly because of his absence, the nation's bipartisan foreign policy had gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Absent Voice | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...testimony of Historian Jacques Barzun (who does his teaching at Columbia): "[Teachers] look like any other Americans; they are no more round-shouldered than bank presidents, they play golf . . . they marry and beget children, laugh and swear and have appendicitis in a thoroughly normal way. They are far less absent-minded than waiters in restaurants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hard Words | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...suggestions were about to be approved when Charles R. Brynteson '50 suddenly told the Council two of the four Harvard members of the joint committee had been absent when the recommendations were draw up and asked that the proposals he withdrawn. Broward Craig '50, chairman of the Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee on Girls in Clubs Withholds Report | 3/21/1950 | See Source »

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