Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Their kinship to their autumn cousins is evidently distant. It may be that the brisk fall air imbues the college with a love of system. It may also be that examinations in October fill a more substantial need than examinations in March. For the fall brings back to academic pursuits a host of men who have whiled away the summertime in physical exertion or passive vagabondage. Perhaps examinations in late October can tell whether or not they have returned in spirit as in person...
...distant earthquake of moderate intensity was registered yesterday morning at the Harvard Seismographic Station, according to Professor K. F. Mather of the Geology Department. It began at 9.15 o'clock and reached its maximum intensity between 9.43 and 9.47 o'clock...
...rail merger ruling at Washington (see p. 28). Widespread pain was experienced by the speculating body public, as leading rail, motor, industrial and chain-store stocks oozed out 10, 20, 30, even 50, even 80 points, even 100 points.* The nerves of finance carried the anguish to distant cities...
...failed for reasons sufficiently obvious to all those who were closely acquainted with the University. That it has nevertheless left a rift in undergraduate life is beyond question. It is to be hoped that, as President Lowell suggests, the University will take under advisement in the not too far distant future some plan for its replacement, not in the old form so as to revive the old difficulties and objections, but with changes adapted to the transformations in modern Harvard life more centrally located eating half smaller, and not requiring mass attendance for its success even at the present time...
...then this quiet old man was showered with glory . . . the credit for four-fifths of which, at least, belonged to Ludendorff. . . . In every heart, on every tongue, there was but one name, Hindenburg. . . . Every maid in the most distant forester's lodge knew that head, which the people call 'a majestic brow of thunder,' and the Kaiser, in his jealous rage, termed 'a sergeant...