Word: absents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether or not the Houses were once more vital centers because of fewer residents and a higher proportion of tutors, is a question on which honest men differ. Certainly the Houses offer some benefits today which were absent in the 1930's. But the critical point is that the Houses are not now what President Lowell intended them to be: "the way the benefits of the small college are combined with the rich offerings of a great university...
...determine whether a healthy individual has an immunity against implanted cancer that will cause his system to reject it just as the healthy body rejects other transplants or grafts from a different individual. In advanced cancer victims this rejection mechanism seems to be greatly diminished or absent. Of the 53 subjects, 27 received implants for the first time, 15 were getting them for the second time, and eleven were three-shot veterans. This last group had received the same type of cancer cells (out of seven types cultivated by Dr. Moore) on the first two occasions, had already shown...
Life's Encore. In the final stage of their journey they encountered the overwhelming if absent-minded munificence of the U.S. Army. A Negro truck driver whisked them 50 miles in 60 minutes to Halle airfield, where a U.S. dispatcher airily put them aboard a C-47 bound for Brussels and, by easy stages, home...
Similarly, with Dyer absent from the 220 freestyle, sophomore Dick Seaton won with a 2:17.0, followed by Pete Macky. A1 Willis picked up the point for Penn...
...said he didn't want to be lecturing his colleagues but that he was prepared to vote on the big policy issue at any time and if senators continued to absent themselves the resolution will be acted...