Word: absents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...institutions of learning and whose politics are at the far left. To date "practically every employee" of Georgia's University System has filled out a modified questionnaire, according to Harmon W. Caldwell, Chancellor of the System. He adds that approximately 20 persons who have not signed are either absent from the State on leave or are ill. "Two faculty members have refused to sign on the ground that the questionnaire is an invasion of their constitutional rights"-and have been fired or forced to resign...
...Lieutenant. Nevertheless, Schine was absent from Fort Dix part or all of 43 days or nights during his first 75 days in the Army, although the average draftee was given passes on only nine of those days. This was illustrated by two charts that the Army presented. One chart used solid black squares on a calendar to show Schine's absences. The other used white squares with black borders to show normal absences by an average recruit...
...During the war she spent three years on a farm in Buckinghamshire, while her husband was overseas with the R.A.F. From the attic of the 16th century house she could see London, 40 miles away, being destroyed each night. But with uncommon discipline she kept the war and her absent husband almost entirely out of her pages. Instead, she watched Nature's show as the seasons turned, observed her young sons with curiosity and astonishment, dwelt on her reading and her memories...
Each man rose in turn to hear his citation, except Paul Buck who was absent. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, received the citation...
...General Elisonhower, General Omar Bradley, and Admiral Ernest J. King, who were offered honorary degrees with MacArthur, received them. But MacArthur was detained in Japan. At that time he sent a telegram, read to the gathered Commencement crowd, expressing his regret at being absent...