Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aged Paul Koundouriotis, Provisional President of Greece, '72, suddenly ordered out a Greek naval plane, at Phaleron (Athenian naval base) last week, stepped into the ship as passenger and flew for the first time in his life. Destination: the Island of Hydra, 50 miles distant, where His Excellency was born...
...which, were all its consequences realized, is little less than revolutionary. The respite of classes which will take effect before midyear and final examinations in the college year 1927-1928, accepted by the majority of undergraduates under the vague head of "improvements" will in the not too distant future be brought to their attention as a factor in their not too distant future be brought to their attention as a factor in their education which has neither the etheriality of mere theory nor the abstractness of "another educational reform...
...Sicily and below Naples, where the power of Fascismo is more a distant threat than a present force, prices and wages scarcely wavered. In central Italy there was obedience at Rome and in Fascist centres generally, but much resistance elsewhere...
...larger centres, and many towns and villages in sparsely settled regions had to depend more or less upon their own resources, small and under capitalized banks may have been a necessity. At the present time there is no such excuse. The automobile has made it possible for even distant towns to keep in close touch with larger centres and there is no justification, in my opinion, for any bank having less than $25,000 capital...
...University to find that the first is that all football games except that with Yale are played in the Stadium? What eye has not rapidly scanned the list of Important Dates in the college year, starting with that of registration and blithely swooping over the months to the far distant Commencement? It is the first real bond felt by the Freshman, is this juvenalia, for it is much more personal and more intimate than the frigidity of the application blanks and schedules which trickle from University Hall all during the summer...