Word: absents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Granite City, Ill., a Baptist preacher declined to accept a 127-10-121 no-confidence vote from his flock. Grounds: many of his supporters were absent hunting...
...protest was given to A. Calvert Smth '14, Secretary to the President, since President Conant himself was absent in Washington. It read...
...Professor Edward H. "Bull" Warren '95 waived his iron-bound rule that "more than 12 minutes late is absent" last week. An unidentified student walked into his Property 1 class 20 minutes late, explaining that he had just returned from a Naval Science cruise and didn't want to miss another class...
...capital program called for $246,843,969 of capital improvements, $219,253,000 to be paid for by borrowing. With items: $17,000,000 for schools, $16,000,000 for subways, $7,000,000 for hospitals, $7,000,000 for a public market on Manhattan's West Side. Absent were some $299,000,000 of various departmental requests; hence the wrangling. For his restraint, Tugwell earned a back-pat from the City Comptroller, short, roly-poly Joseph McGoldrick, Tugwell's ex-colleague on the Columbia faculty. Having taken New York City out of hock to the bankers...
...Emperor bowed to the crowd. Finally Prince Konoye stepped to a microphone and. waving his arms, led all Japan, gathered from Hokkaido to Honshu at millions of radios, in the Japanese equivalent of three cheers: "Banzai! Banzai! Banzai!" Then the assembled 52,000 bowed toward the pavilion, and the absent millions bowed toward their microphones...