Word: absents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already A.O.L. [absent over leave] and no prospects of even getting standing space on the next train. But I am only one of scores of service men & women who have spent the afternoon watching haughty, obviously idle people with train reservations carry expensive luggage and golf bags to already crowded trains...
Turning in a fine performance for their absent coach, Hal Ulen, who was sick with the fin. Harvard's mermen took nearly every event in the swimming meet at M. I. T. last Saturday night. Against weak competition from Tech the Harvard squad dropped only two races to the down-stream team...
...Manford Act is just a straw in the wind; and believe me, that wind would not blow if the he-men of Texas were not absent overseas fighting for freedom...
Winston Churchill was absent when King George VI opened a new session of Parliament last week. When the King read his seventh opening address from the throne, he wore a naval uniform, sported a visored admiral's cap where his glittering crown should have been. The normal pageantry, usually a richly costumed charade suggesting Britain's history of kings and the common man's long fight for democratic self-government, was stripped to three essentials. The indispensables were: 1) the symbol of democracy; 2) the symbol of wealth; 3) the symbol of the King's safety...
...know that like the Americans of German descent, the overwhelming majority of Americans of Japanese origin are wholly loyal to the United States. . . . It does not make for loyalty to be constantly under suspicion when grounds for suspicion are absent. I have too great a belief in the sanctity of American citizenship to want to see these Americans of Japanese descent penalized and alienated through blind prejudice. I want to see them given a square deal...