Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hugh Simpson Gibson, head of the U. S. delegation, instructed practically all his assistants and experts to remain at Geneva during the summer, there to function as members of the various committees and subcommittees. Mr. Gibson himself journeyed to Berne, a scant 75 miles distant. There he will continue as U. S. Minister to Switzerland, will visit Geneva often, keep in close touch with the advancing preparations...
...proceeding years the competition will be divided into two groups. Class B will include the smaller and more distant schools and those entering athletes in the track events only. Last year Brockton captured the Class A title with a total of 37 points, far ahead of Medford which scored 21 points. Lynn Classical landed the third position in the first division. In Class B, Lawrence High scored nearly twice as many points as did the second and third place Melrose and Quincy squads...
...Novel from the Play by Mary Roberts Rinehart & Avery Hopwood - Doran ($2). Now there is a chance for all who were too young, busy, distant or improvident to see one of this era's most satisfactory spine-chillers on the stage, to read it in a book. One suspects that one of Mrs. Rinehart's literarily inclined sons -Alan, the publicity man, or Stanley, a still-higher-up of their mother's publisher - is the unnamed "third person" who alleges he was a nervous derelict after transcribing from scenes to chapters the ghoulish excitement that takes place...
...vacant passages in Democratic ears await in vain even the rumble of a distant drum. The clash and clangor of battle is strangely lacking. Now and again the silence is broken by the popping of a single gun, or a fusillade against the flyscreens of the White House...
Various are the workings of the reforming mind. From that distant time, so ancient as to fail admission to the field of divisionals, when a reforming officer from Olympus kept the only two humans in existence from the grass of Eden, reformers have flourished the weapons of restraint. And now in the sacred precincts of academic freedom these praying, preying protestants of all the joi de vivre and verve of life have found in modern science a means of making more moral the minions of culture...