Word: absents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Widener, had in the past 20 years won almost every other U. S. horse race except the Derby. Second was his sad-eyed, 23-year-old daughter Mary, first woman ever to receive a trainer's license from The Jockey Club (TIME, April 15, 1935). "Miss Mary" was absent from Louisville last week because her own charges were running at Jamaica, L. I. But to ride her-father's Derby entry, Bold Venture, she sent her contract apprentice jockey whom she herself had trained, tiny 18-year-old Ira ("Babe") Hanford. Four days before, at Jamaica, Jockey Hanford...
...Haven on March 7, Eli contests for Crimson boxers have been called off indefinitely. The announcement of seven schedules approved by the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports by William J. Bingham '16, director of Athletics, was made last night and in the boxing schedule Yale was absent...
...York is rated a close state in 1936 calculations. Any serious wavering on the part of New York City's nominally heavy Democratic majority might cost Democrat Roosevelt New York's 47 votes in the Electoral College. With Alfred Emanuel Smith and James John Walker notably absent, the powers of Democratic politics in New York sat down to dine with President Roosevelt in the Commodore Hotel's main ballroom and hear his arguments for their support. They turned out to be largely a dissertation on New Deal economics...
...College freshman; the cross Dean, a perfect heavy in every case, the co-ed-heroine, usually portrayed as a sweet, delectible Dream Princess; the hard-boiled football coach, always a character builder; the towering Adonis who plays full-back and causes feminine hearts to flutter; and as for the absent-minded professor pick up any college comic magazine and you'll find plenty of jokes about...
...that time he was absent on a Guggenheim Fellowship at Berlin and Munich in 1926-27, and in 1930 when he visited the Western colleges of Carliton, Grinnell, Pomona...