Word: absents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...certificates, which will take the place of pre-war Harvard H's, will be awarded for intercollegiate competition in baseball, basketball, crew, cross country, football, lacrosse, soccer, tennis, and track. Absent from the list are the swimming, wrestling, golf, fencing, and hockey teams, which have not engaged in any form of intercollegiate competition since formal athletics were discontinued in the spring...
...said, he had been commended for his work. And last April, when he had tried to resign because of ill health, his resignation was turned down. He was given a pay raise along with permission for brief absences for treatment. Since then, OSS admitted, Barmine has not been absent oftener than any other employe. But OSS insisted that the decision to fire Barmine was made Sept. 21, "before anyone concerned . . . had any knowledge of the article which was published Sept. 27." In any case, it added, employes are not permitted to write controversial articles...
Five sons had "gone off to war; only young Elden, 15, was left. On their farm in Tremonton, Utah, Mr. & Mrs. Alben Borgstrom felt lost. But regular letters came from the five absent sons; that helped to keep up their spirits...
...Irish immigrants (his father was a Boston Elevated blacksmith), tall, rugged, liberal Archbishop Gushing has spent all of his 49 years in Boston. Unlike Cardinal O'Connell, who was aloof and often absent from Boston, the new Archbishop has always kept his latchstring out, always stuck close to his job. That job, since 1929, has been the direction of Boston's Society for the Propagation of the Faith, and Gushing is a name known & loved in the farthest Catholic missions...
...Absent-Minded Hero. Hero of the book is orange-haired William Ozanne, son of a Channel Islands' doctor. The heroines are the beautiful sisters Marianne and Marguerite Le Patourel, who both fell in love with William at first sight. The plot, spun out to 502 pages, depends on the fact that absent-minded William was no good at names and could never remember which one was Marianne, which Marguerite. Chic, brunette Marianne ("hostesses delighted in the brilliance of her conversation") made indolent young William work so hard that he passed the Royal Navy exams. William was "deuced fond...