Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brilliant red blood in the arteries is exactly the same as the dark blue blood of the veins, the difference in color being due to difference in gas content. That there is no to and fro undulation, but a constant circuit of blood from the heart, through the distant parts of the body, back to the heart...
...trees in the Yard leaf-covered; caps and gowns, Albert very few; crew, track, baseball, tennis: spring, so slow in coming, so swift to leave, is already starting away, and summer, bringing Commencement, is no longer distant. This is the time for Seniors to take thought; to measure well the little space still theirs before the tassels are tossed to the other side of the caps, and Harvard has opened the gate for another five hundred to enter the fellowship of educated...
...getting some local philanthropist to set up a marketing fund for them. Then, in years when the ten pig men raised more pigs than could be sold profitably in their home village, those who had surplus pigs could borrow from the fund to pay for transporting their pigs to distant markets, or to buy feed for pigs kept penned until the home village was ready to buy more pigs. In case the pig surplus was so great that the pig men's borrowings exhausted the loan fund, the pig men could always fall back again on the equalization...
From a perusal of Dean Nichols' article it is evident that his position is justified. It is difficult for the large and unwieldy university to escape the charge of impersonalism, and to meet the volleys of those who harry the administration from distant loopholes. No longer can the Harvard student know personally a tenth part of the faculty; and for the man whose standing is secure, the intimate relation of earlier times would hardly be advantageous. In the case of the student balanced on a knife-edge between probation and "passing on", however, personal acquaintance and personal information become...
With these facts in mind one may visualize the furore which stirred Budapest, last week, when it became known that Bela Kun had been found lurking in Vienna, only 140 miles distant, and arrested by the Austrian police. Among his effects were found documents and pamphlets suggesting that he was again being employed by the Third International of Moscow to foment Communist uprisings in Hungary. When arrested Propagandist Kun was found to have put on weight and grown a mustache; but he was dressed characteristically in the height of fashion and reeked of his favorite perfume, wood violet...