Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would gladly die for, abundant in food, wine, ease and "full-bosomed" houris. Ignorant in most things (he once forbade the artificial fecundation of date palms, precipitating a famine), he violated Arabian chivalry by employing his brains in war; adopted entrenchment and always watched fights alertly from a safely distant hill. Militarily secure, he accomplished great pilgrimages back to the holy well, Zemzem, at Mecca. Before his death from pleurisy in 632, all Arabia was Allah's footstool, with good prospect of Syria, Byzantium and India being lined up for accessory furniture...
...Edward J. Brown '14 as head coach of the University crews gave the lie to the rumors that last spring and this summer predicted a violent upheaval on the banks of the Charles and envisaged the next Harvard coach as a "new" man, and probably one from some distant state. In cleaning up the crew situation, Director of Athletics William J. Bingham '18 did not find it necessary to leave the old system; and the naming of Brown as head coach is more in the nature of a promotion than of an appointment...
...week Senator Borah strode down the dusty streets of Boisé, capital of Idaho, as if a blaring band marched at his van. People applauded, tipped their hats to him; occasionally he nodded. Leather-jowled man of wide spaces and deep thinking, Senator Borah builds no theatre for his distant capital as does Senator Warren (see p. 9) at his;- his own personality provides dramatic catharsis...
...Barberton, Ohio, Louis Goudy, 14, of Decatur, Ind., stepped off his bike and arched two harassed insteps. Barberton is 213 miles distant from Decatur. Said Louis: "I heard grandmother was ill and I thought she might need me, so I came." Grandma was pleased...
...Stuttgart, Germany, the Burgomaster, Mayor, and officials of the town, together with numerous uncles, cousins, aunts, and more distant kinsmen, welcomed Gertrude Ederle, Channel swimmer. She will next visit her grandmother-Gertrude Ederle, 77-in Bissinger, where the old lady keeps bar in her own hotel, Lamb...