Word: distant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Information regarding membership in the club, which is limited only to those who have already had some experience in distant travel, may be had on writing to the secretary, Mr. J. C. Phillips, 299 Berkeley street, Boston...
...allowed ten throws at the basket at the north end of the Gymnasium. Of these ten throws three must be taken from the foul line, fifteen feet from the goal. Three throws must be made from any point on a straight line extending across the court and twenty feet distant from the goal line. A throw from the left side of the court at an angle of forty-five degrees and a throw from the right side of the court at the same angle, together with one throw from each of the corners at that end of the court, will...
...years, of the increase in the size of the University, the membership of the Society, and its capital stock. Indeed, so far as the number of available shares goes, every person connected with the University might become a member without the payment of any fee whatsoever, within no very distant date. The exclusion of a constantly diminishing number of persons who might wish to join at the present rate for the next three years is confessedly a trying necessity; but such passing evil would seem to be less than that of excluding forever from the control of the Society...
These observations at the Observatory will continue until about the first of March when it is supposed that the planet will be too far distant for further observation in the United States. It is intended then to continue the investigation at the station in South America from which the first observations were carried on, and where, it is believed, the planet will be visible about a month longer than in any other part of the world. The final results of the work will not be officially computed until spring...
...According to the scheme of the book, the literary history of each century is prefaced by an actual chronicle of the chief historical events. The author's main purpose is to show how American literature differentiates itself from English. The American temperament in regarded as growing more and more distant from the English up to the eighteenth century; accordingly, the most distinctive American expression is in the first half of the nineteenth century. Since then, in the last fifty years, American literature has been, on the whole, less markedly different from English...