Word: afar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This course, established 10 years ago, offers an opportunity to spread afar the ideals of Perkins Institution. Several of the 120 students who have taken it came from such widely separated countries as Holland, Germany, Alaska, Japan, Hawall, Mexico, Columbia, Porto Rico and Cuba...
Discerning Americans are learning that the U. S. has a musical institution quite as deserving of pilgrims from afar as Germany's annual Wagner festival at Bayreuth or the famed Opera at Paris (lately mediocre indeed) or La Scala at Milan (which badly misses Conductor Arturo Toscanini). To rustic Ravinia on Chicago's North Shore (20 mi. out) go more and more visitors each year, to hear what is easily the best summer opera to be found anywhere in the world...
...windward will be blind. That of veteran policeman Mulrooney can hardly be expected to measure from afar the width of London's latest white trousers. So it is with a true feeling of sadness that each cadet sings official police words...
Your attitude towards Indian affairs . . . smacks of the sickly sentimental ism noticeable amongst those who view the travail of a lesser people from afar...
...influence on Cornell was sometimes exerted from afar; he was away from the university for some three years filling diplomatic posts. His influence has continued since he left the presidency for good and during his terms as Minister to China (1921-25) and Ambassador to Germany...