Word: afield
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...class of 1925 individually and collectively, are busied with accumulating the intellectual riff-raff of four years of study in the different fields of concentration. Actually, if our mentors would but understand us, there is going on in the "divided psyches" of these young men, thinking which is far afield from these supposed endeavors. Your Senior, if at all given to thinking, is already chafing under the hard task-master, the May examinations. He remembers that some of Harvard's finest "illustri"--Emerson, for example, and Thoreau keeping himself in the pink of condition waiting for something to turn...
...Certainly Mr. LaFollette has gone far afield in describing himself and his movement as 'progressive.' Mr. LaFollette prates about boss-ridden machine politics within the Republican Party, about the control of the 'predatory interests,' and yet who since the days when Lenin and Trotzky first set up their autocratic rule over the Russian people has attempted to dominate and boss those around him more than the Wisconsin Senator...
...Interior Fall had received an unsecured loan of $100,000 from Edward L. Doheny about a year before Naval Reserve No. 1 was leased to one of Mr. Doheny's companies. Since then nothing of equal importance has come to light. The investigation has wandered far afield digging up new tidbits to set scandalous tongues wagging for another day, after which a new name or new names were discovered to be be-oiled. Last week's 'daily contributions included: ¶ The discovery that Edward B. McLean (TIME, March 10), owner of the Washington Post and the Cincinnati...
...compass of 234 pages Mr. Price follows the career of Mustapha Kernel Pasha, first President of the Republic of Turkey, gives the Turkish angle of the War and presents some rather acrimonious comment on Christianity in the Land of Islam. So far so good. The author goes farther afield and animadverts upon "Germany in Islam," British policy toward Turkey, Russia and Turkey. In particular does he berate the Anglo-Russian treaty of 1907 which paved the way for completion of the Triple Entente by King Edward VII with the Tsar of Russia at Reval in 1908. Although much that...
Oscar W. Underwood. The Senaator from Alabama is openly afield, but his organization is not yet nationally active. There is some doubt whether he can carry even the entire South against McAdoo. Texas, for example, is reported in favor of the latter...