Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King," said the bulletin, "is now able to read and apply his mind for short periods of time. Complete recovery is still some months distant...
...matter how the creators of cultured men feel about it, the fact remains that very few students meet those ancient authors of whose distant fame they have heard since their Gore Hall period, until the melancholy days of Divisionals are near. So the Vagabond was pleasantly surprised to learn that Sophocles' tragedy Electra was being presented at Eliot Hall, Jamaica Plain. There he found the ancient drama excellently played against a background of temple and poplars, with a cast directed by a former member of the 47 Workshop. With the altruistic spirit typical of better-class Vagabonds, he sought information...
Southern Pacific, William Crocker inherited the Crocker fortune and the First National Bank of San Francisco. As a second-generation tycoon, he is ultraconservative, correct, distant, cosmopolitan. Traditional even in his recreations, he is an ardent golfer...
...largest city in the country, but principally because it is central for the competing colleges. A games at the score sheet of last Saturday's meet will reveal how many entrants come from the New York district or farther south. To ask the hundreds of athletes from distant colleges to make the journey to Boston would be an imposition on coaches and teams. Harvard and Boston have become famous for their athletic hospitality; they must be careful that hospitality does not become greed for the lion's share of the good things...
...factness. "Both sides are looting and making heavy extortions from the populace." There have probably been few cases in history in which war has been so much at the expense of the inhabitants as in the struggles in modern China, and the stream of refugees and emigrants to the distant but more tranquil Manchuria will probably be greater than ever this year. There the international competition is still present to add to the complication, as is shown by rumors of Russian generals or Japanese money backing one or the other faction. Out of China should come something of great moment...