Word: afar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loses her husband's love, eventually her son's respect, finally the farm. The Natural Mother is a worthy book, realistic to a degree, not noticeably shocking but definitely depressing, of the same order as Flaubert's Madame Bovary, whose tone it occasionally echoes from afar...
...coach was helped a shag-browed, stooped old man. He eyed the station signboard, recalled his onetime precipitous arrival at the same platform, smiled ruefully. He was Inventor Thomas Alva Edison. Nearby a lean, keen-eyed man stood beaming. He it was who had staged this performance. From afar he had brought the properties-the locomotive, cars and station.* Into the deaf inventor's ear he shouted welcome.† He was Friend Henry Ford. This was only Stage-Setter Ford's prolog. Proudly he led Mr. Edison to a building nearby, the inventor's oldtime laboratory, every...
...interest from long delay, guarding against too-frequent revisions of the whole tariff. It had been held constitutional, he reminded. It did not make the President a despot, etc., etc. Having thus broken his silence on the Tariff, President Hoover once more fell silent, watched the Tariff War from afar...
...branch bank can be of more assistance in time of trouble because its risks are spread over wide area; that in branch banking credit is very liquid so that it can find in any one locality as much as may be required, bringing the funds if necessary from afar; that management is much more likely to be competent and honest in a few strong hands than in many weak ones...
...Fleischmann company. "The Yeast Must Go Through" is the watchword in every Fleischmann office. During the New England floods of November 1927, Fleischmann chartered all the airplanes at the Boston Airport, even newsmen and news services could get planes only through the Fleischmann Traffic Department. First arrivals from afar in the flooded districts were airmen carrying Fleischmann yeast. Nor is Fleischmann service limited only to yeast deliveries. When a Fleischmann baker died suddenly, leaving a distracted widow with several small children, one Fleischmann man took charge of the funeral, another Fleischmann man ran the bakery until the widow was able...