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Word: absents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eminently constructive approach and well in line with the whole idea of the program. It entails, however, the ability of the man reading the papers to compare them on the basis of English skill as well as knowledge of course material, an ability that may very well be absent in may specialized instructors and section...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Look for English A | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...Punta del Este, where everybody wore slacks or bright bathing suits. Few Argentines could afford Uruguayan vacation rates any more (about $50 a day in inflated Argentine pesos), but Brazilians, who turned to Uruguay's casinos after their own were outlawed in 1946, partly made up for the absent visitors from the south...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Capricorn Sun | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Harper hopes his quintet has regained the scrappiness which has been its trademark this season for today's contest. It was conspicuously absent when the freshmen lost to MIT 45-42 Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Travel To Meet Exeter's Once Beaten Five | 2/16/1949 | See Source »

...faces in the lineup give the key to the rise of this year's team. Three of them, Bill Clark will probably be on the ice for the face off at 8:30 p.m. Another starter, Lew Preston while hardly a neophyte against Dartmouth, was absent last year in order to play on the ill-fated AHA Olympic team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Game Is Season Pay-Off | 2/16/1949 | See Source »

...Italian-American wine producer are unsurpassed. He spends the entire second act in bed, recuperating from two broken legs. His gestures and facial expressions, worthy of pantomime, carry not only that act, but the whole play. I found myself waiting impatiently for his return each time he was absent from the stage. This pretty well covers the performance of his colleagues--adequate, but unlike Muni, bound to their creaking vehicle...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: The Playgoer | 2/9/1949 | See Source »

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