Word: absents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...male rabbit and brought the offspring successfully to birth] stated: "This work will in no way affect the manner of living or customs," but just let some women get their hands on his formula and develop it further and in another hundred years or so, men will be absent from this earth...
...Germans scouted clear across France to the Atlantic, sending off raid alarms in cities to which the war had only been headlines and absent men. Allied reconnaissance pushed far and frequently into Germany. German communiques made a point of mentioning that Nazi scouts were accompanied by Messerschmitt fighters.* Nevertheless, they admitted that, in one day, seven observers were lost. Same time the Nazis put the score for the whole war at 52 warplanes lost by Great Britain to 20 by Germany and boasted that Messerschmitts had overcome the French Morane-Saulnier fighters. Britain claimed that 125 Nazi warplanes...
Though big names are notably absent from the roster of players (most of whom are drawn from the 10,000,000 sandlot baseballers and softballers in the U. S.), many a onetime star has turned promoter of indoor baseball. President of the league (at $7,500 a year) is 51-year-old Tris Speaker, Cleveland's baseball Immortal who has spent the past nine years as a radio sportcaster, Hollywood actor, minor-league club owner, wholesale liquor dealer and steel salesman. Managing the Cleveland club is another onetime Indian, baldpate Bill Wambsganss, only baseballer ever to make an unassisted...
...week they have been brothers in misfortune. The small turnout for the game-about 32,000-has sent up in smoke not only most of the athletic associations profits but even a measure of the prestige their game has always had. Harvard extends its deepest sympathy-rather absent minded sympathy because here the situation is considerably different. With 50,000 tickets already sold, and the usual activities around the Square promising a sell-out by Saturday, the H.A.A. doesn't have to worry just a present where its next athletic dollar is coming from. The reason for the ticket-scramble...
...explicit for his time. When he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts "the female models wore masks, thus hiding their identity and their shame from the world." When he taught there, he was dismissed for asking a young lady art student to substitute for an absent model...