Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Apparently it is never possible to drive through the skull of the average undergraduate the fact-that what he does is in a large measure responsible for the opinion of Columbia which his intimates and those with whom he comes in contact form. The connection seems too distant and abstract for him to realize...
...White House office one morning last week sat President Coolidge, his finger hovering over a button. The clock reached 9:30. The President pushed the button. Straightway started, in distant Toledo, the presses of the new Toledo Blade newspaper plant...
There are, it is true, some fraternities which form a chain of brotherhood linking certain men in Harvard with certain other men in distant institutions. And there are clubs of various sorts. To dwell on the small part played by most clubs, meaning clubs so titled and also fraternities, as factors in gradations in the Harvard social scale is aphoristic. Every one, including both club men and non-club men, realizes that one is not a pariah because he does or does not belong to a club, or because he belongs to a club the rank of which might somehow...
...only right in North China. Despatches from correspondents of the New York Times and London Times agreed that at the very moment when Senator Bingham and Chang Tso-lin were sipping tea, Marshal Chang's officers were busy with a well calculated atrocity some few hundred yards distant...
...little muttering wars, the noise of the mines under the hot sun, the songs that the Dutch vintners sing and the old curses that black men shout in the alleys of Johannes-burg?for most people these are far away. They are heard only as a confused murmur, a distant and broken music...