Word: absents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Karman is the model absent-minded professor. After he returns from a long trip, dozens of hats that he has lost dribble back by mail. During the war he was followed around by a special functionary whose duty it was to pick up secret documents that Von Karman left in taxis or hotel lobbies. He is never conscious of traffic: he crosses the most dangerous highway as if it were a country lane. His driving is as famous as his absentmindedness. A friend once suggested that he get three smashed fenders fixed. "Not yet," said Von Karman. He was waiting...
McCarthy, returning after a 20-year absence, absent-mindedly rambles through the streets of the city, describing land-marks and relating anecdotes about Harvard, recalling the "good old days...
Buster Crabb and an unidentified male companion had checked into Portsmouth's Sally Port Hotel on April 17. On the following day, the Russian cruiser Ordzhonikidze steamed into Portsmouth harbor bearing Visitors Khrushchev and Bulganin. Crabb was absent from his hotel room all that day. The next day he checked out and was never seen again. The day before the announcement of his disappearance, operatives from Britain's top-secret Criminal Investigation Division tore all records of his stay out of the hotel register. If Portsmouth's police were hunting for clues, they were not admitting...
Unexpectedly, the Council's controversial Food Committee report was not delivered. Chairman Theodore O. Moskowitz '58 was absent from the meeting, but he sent word that the report could not be made because his committee did not yet have the Dining Hall budget. Moskowitz had released some details of the proposed report last week...
...coming Sunday, that the impending anniversary will be observed in a spirit close to the one which inspired him to make his pioneer achievements in psychoanalysis. In the past few months, a large number of critical evaluations of the philosophical and social implications of his work have appeared. Conspicuously absent from them, is the thoughtless adulation Freud never allowed himself...