Word: absents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With most of the regulars absent, the '45 baseball team fell before Governor Dummer 5 to 2 at Newburyport yesterday afternoon. Bill McAuliffe failed to gain a victory in his first official mound start, and only George Casey and Billy Barron were able to solve the opposing hurler with any consistency. The team plays Yale Thursday at New Haven...
...White, who has been a reliable winner all year, and Bob Chase, was expected, but John Shattuck's fourth in the shot was a pleasant surprise. Joe Kane, of Penn, and Herb Hobler of Princeton, who were supposed to take over the Javelin throwing, were both absent, so "Herky" Herskovits and Bob Chase stepped in to pick up four invaluable points for the home forces...
Soldiers at California's Camp Callan whose mothers were to be absent on Mother's Day chose a "proxy mother" to visit them. The proxy: Rita Hayworth...
...expected reports of groans and creaking bones were conspicuously absent, it was noticed at the Indoor Athletic Gymnasium during an active session, Monday afternoon. In general, the men were conscious of the purpose of the training, fitness for military service, and even more conscious of the necessity for rounding into shape before the government issues its call...
...APPREHENSIVE DOG-H. C. Bailey-Crime Club ($2). Mr. Reginald Fortune luxuriates at a museum-piece English inn while probing the violent death of a long-absent village siren, whose return to childhood scenes precipitates murder, suicide and confusion among the gentry. Intelligent, well-characterized and done with customary Bailey finesse...