Word: absents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high-school girls are wearing guard rings of black jet, reported Women's Wear last week. Wearing of the ring shows "a thought" for absent soldier boy friends, quickly indicates to all those in the know that the wearer is solo only because she is a patriot, not a wallflower...
...department has suffered the loss of two important professors to the war effort. Professor William L. Crum is now working for the Navy and the Treasury and Professor Edward S. Mason is in the Office of the Coordinator of Information in Washington. To replace Mason, who has been absent the entire year, Corwin D. Edwards of the Department of Justice and now visiting lecturer on Economics is giving graduate Instruction in Industrial Organization and Price Policies...
Academic emphasis in academic fields has gained for Harvard a nationwide reputation, but when this emphasis is carried into the University's first aid courses unfortunate results are to be expected. The setting of a broken arm requires more practical experience than the bookish knowledge of an "absent-minded professor," and the use of a text written before the war will hardly help the training of a group which aims to aid civilians in the event of air-raids...
...Squire, using careful jottings on tiny sheets of notepaper. an swered all major questions in the almost record time for 40 minutes. Though his mannerisms were coldly legal, M.P.s soon warmed to the passionate conviction he injected into his words. Only a major speech by Churchill (who was conspicuously absent) would have drawn a bigger house. Even a few tired, wise old peers climbed into the gallery to see for them selves whether this man was a find or a fancy...
...complete job on U.S. slang is beyond human compass. "God-box" is given for Church but not for organ. "Profile" is curiously absent from journalistic slang. The Hollywood section fails to include "ootchimagootchi" (hot talk as an obbligato to Latin lovemaking), though it does give "wrinkle" (an actress' mother...