Word: afar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midst of this gathering, obviously the focal point for polite cadet eyes, were two rather robust ladies who had apparently travelled from afar to see, not Harvard, but the cadets in action against Harvard. The larger of the two ladies had taken it upon herself to be a guide for all those within shouting distance, for, with a fine combination of emphasis and scorn, she pointed a finger at the gaunt bulk of Sever standing solemnly, patiently, in the background...
...compared with such an unfashionable church as the Seventh Day Adventist, which spent $50,000,000 on foreign missionary work in six recent years (TIME, June 8, 1936), the fashionable Protestant Episcopal Church is comparatively cool about carrying the Word afar. It budgets about $5,000,000 a year for missions, chiefly in U. S. rural districts, Alaska, South America, India, and in recent years the Episcopal faithful have periodically allowed missionary deficits to accumulate...
...From afar a tomeat ye-owls sympathetically. The boys stuff cotton into their cars and try to concentrate on their notes...
...finding a speck of land 120 ft. long, 90 ft. wide, and only three feet high, which no plane had ever seen. This tiny spot is Kingman Reef, discovered some 80 years ago by Captain John Kingman of the U. S. schooner Shooting Star. Other ships occasionally spotted it afar, but not until 1921 was it officially recorded by the U. S. S. Eagle...
...Fanchon Devoe (actual name: Mrs. Robert Lee Criswell) was graduated in 1921 from Ohio State University as Bess Willis. Successively a newspaper editor, an adwoman, a radio scriptwriter and author, she is now married to a well-to-do Circleville lawyer. Inspired to create Bachelor and having heard from afar of Manhattan's elegant Bachelor Lucius Beebe, she sought him out on his home grounds for advice. Bachelor Beebe, who does a weekly column on metropolitan high life and works on the dramatic side of the Herald Tribune, gave Editor Devoe two manuscripts, introduced her to Photographer Jerome Zerbe...