Word: absents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like most gifted theater people, Eileen works every waking hour. Result: she is absent from the gay night life of London's West...
This week 1,000 members of the American Diabetes Association met at Toronto to strike a quarter-century balance sheet on insulin. (Among those present: Charles Best. Absent: Sir Frederick Banting, killed in a plane crash while on a secret wartime mission to England.) Diabeticians found the gains many, but the war against diabetes still far from...
...Youth is absent in the congregation. . . . When asked the reason for their alienation from the church, they made it clear that their antipathy was to what they believed was the antisocial attitude of the church rather than to the unscientific nature of religious teaching. It would perhaps be more accurate to describe the attitude of the young people whom we met as indifference to the church rather than as antipathy toward...
...minds on whether they like their instructors young or old, drunk or sober, and whether they prefer their dates to be of the free and easy type or of the bespectacled Widener variety. The Poll will be distributed today in the Registration line, and will also be mailed to absent '46ers...
...Washington, likewise, "numberless things are represented, and one interest after the other counts itself in; the great Congressional Library crowns the hill beside the Capitol, the Departments and Institutes cover their acres and square their shoulders, the Obelisk to the memory of Washington climbs still higher; but something is absent more even than these masses are present-till it at last occurs to you that the existence of a religious faith on the part of the people is not even remotely suggested...