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Word: absents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Hobo | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...protest was given to A. Calvert Smth '14, Secretary to the President, since President Conant himself was absent in Washington. It read...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Petition Presented To Conant Repudiating His Intervention Plan | 11/30/1940 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT TAKES "BULL" BY HORNS IN PROPERTY CLASS | 11/27/1940 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: Mr. Tugwell's Idea | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Eight Directions, One Sky | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

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