Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman commons could be accomplished only at great expense, and the construction of another of those annexes whose aesthetic quality is so generally questionable; and, when this new portion has been built, the Freshman commons will not, under any conditions of dwelling, be centralized. Even Memorial Hall is less distant from the Yard dormitories than the Union and still Memorial's poor position is one of the arguments for constructing an entirely new dining hall. The influx of eight hundred Freshmen to the Union three times a day would tend, even without the exclusion of other men, to change...
...time Sindbad the Sailor set out on his Arabian Nights adventures from Basra. With Mr. Crane in Basra were his son John and the Rev. Henry A. Bilkerd, a Reformed Church missionary from Kalamazoo, Mich. They planned to set off at dawn for the Sultanate of Kuwait, 85 miles distant, despite the fact that nomadic and warlike subjects of the Great Sultan Ibn Saud of Nejd and the Hejaz were thought to be marauding not far off. Apparently Mr. Crane judged that his party would be safe, and with the best reason: in 1926 Sultan Ibn Saud had pledged eternal...
...distant earthquake was recorded at the Harvard Seismorgraph Station beginning at 1.18 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Its intensity was only sufficient to carry the main phases of the motion to Cambridge, so an exact determination of the distance could not be made. The character of the phases recorded indicates a distance of about 10,000 kilometers, or about 6200 miles, one quarter of the way around the globe...
...Voyage. At distant ports on seven seas the Commissioners, panting, embarked for London. At New York Aunt Evangeline, shedding her army uniform and taking an assumed name, departed secretly on the Olympic. Reluctantly she left behind her horses, dogs and Pekingese pup Tiny, for British quarantine regulations denied their entrance. Arriving in London, she was not granted permission to see her sick brother. She engaged a suite at the Howard Hotel. Flowers sent by friends, baskets heaped with fruits, made it a bower. Niece Catherine did not send gifts...
...question of what to do with the Stadium, which confronts the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports at its meeting tonight, involves no consideration permanence. The time is not far distant when the present concrete Stadium will be structurally unfit for use. When that time comes, there will arise the problem which can be met only by a new athletic plant. Whether the solution of the immediate difficulty employs concrete stands or steel, the temporary character of the settlement cannot be overlooked...