Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supposition, such a straight-going beam would be tangential to the earth's curvature and so never reach distant earth points where radio stations may be. By scientific theory, two possibilities exist. The Kolster beam may be skillfully aimed at the Heaviside Layer† and be reflected down to its receiving station, just as a pool player bounces a ball from cushion to pocket. The other possibility is that gravity will drag the beam to the proper curve of the earth...
...week, rendering him unconscious for several hours. Instantly Hunter Wales despatched a native runner to the two Royal field telegraphers, encamped some miles away near a tapped wire. So fervent were their calls for help that a motor cavalcade of doctors and nurses set out from Kampala, 200 miles distant, under the impression that the Heir Apparent was dying. They made the distance in six hours flat, over ghastly roads. They found H. R. H. sitting at the bedside of General Trotter, where he remained all night...
...assert, however, that these gentlemen handsomely assist the Advocate's announced intention of making itself both more timely and more readable. Both subjects, the American Legion and a department (or is one point of "The Rally" that, after all it isn't a department?) of the University, are far distant from the preoccupations of the journal ten or fifteen years ago. An editorial board that can recognize the possibility of interesting the undergraduate not only in affairs outside the college but even in those inside it has made a considerable advance in judgement and maturity...
...Smith technique during parades: sweep the hat, inclusively, at nearby crowds. Grin squarely at this person, then that. Answer cries with a comeback now and then. Scan crowds at distant windows; single out one group, grin and wave the hat straight at the group. A distant concerted cheer will come back. People in the street look up. Everyone cheers...
...Brown Herald's proffer of support for the resumption of football relations between Harvard and Brown comes, fortunately, not late enough to require projection into a season more distant than 1929. The University's schedule still contains one or two open dates, necessarily in the early autumn; and the possibility of inviting the Providence team to fill one of them still exists...