Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ganna Walska (Mrs. Harold Fowler McCormick): "Belgrade, 950 miles distant from Paris, is the capital of Jugoslavia. There I, earnest singer, appeared in the title role of Tosca. I stabbed the Baron Scarpia of the piece so vigorously that I broke my stage property knife. I got five curtain calls, and was pleased with this tribute to me, after my unkind treatment in the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 26, 1925) and my recent failure to secure a stage in Paris, even after buying, as I thought, an opera house for myself...
...packets of ammunition. After this we hobbled our mounts and settled down to wait, in what Mulvaney calls "Invidjus apprehenshun." Nothing happened. We waited some more. Still no sign of our friends. Then "Eddie" called me over to his side of the depression and showed me a distant object, which my field glasses revealed as our strayed pet. We lost no time in retrieving...
...facetious in the traditional vein of the Oxford Union, ranged with fairly consistent success as far west as Washington University (St. Louis, Mo.), which beat them on Prohibition. They achieved their most brilliant victory last week at Franklin & Marshall College, in Pennsylvania-Dutch Lancaster, Pa., not two hours distant from Valley Forge and the cradle of U. S. liberty. The question: "Resolved: Monarchy is the best policy." Then they went to Baltimore for the first international-interracial college debate on record. In Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, before an audience 95% Negro, they again lost the Prohibition issue...
...years of college. I believe, therefore, that were those two years of college to be added to the four years of high school, there would be a gain all around. Many boys and girls who want and deserve a college education but who cannot afford to go to the distant college or state university would get a junior college education. Moreover they would get a better college education for the best teachers of the high schools are at the to whereas, generally speaking, the poorest teachers of the college are at the bottom. Moreover, when the students have finished these...
Mediterranean Rumblings. Setting aside the distant prospect of a Pan-Asian League there loomed the immediate probability that the "T. and T." conference will serve as a counter blast to the understandings arrived at between British Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain and Premier Mussolini, at their recent meeting (TIME...