Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shambles strewn with the debris of mutating solar systems, planes where (according to schoolboy definition) parallel lines may meet, and voids in which time, unhinged, spins like a tiny weathervane in an everlasting whirlwind. What bred the ray? The condensation into matter of light and heat given off by distant stars and suns,* suggests Dr. Millikan...
...from Parma some three days earlier. Before reaching Rome they are said to have halted near a thick pine grove in order that Zaniboni might receive last minute practice in the use of his rifle, which he fired for a long time at a target set up 100 yards distant in the woods...
...French forces ignore the state departments' august disapproval and proceed to the day's fighting like bad boys playing truant. Unreasonable obstinacy displayed by the Riffians in refusing to be intimidated by the comic opera Spanish army precipitates a political crisis in Madrid. A French officer, perhaps a distant relative of General Nicholas Herkimer, directs his command from a stretcher for eleven days after being shot through both hips. The underdogs in the fight are lean, brown men who live in the desert and make nothing of shooting French aviators out of the air like so many crows...
...principal features which the Association is taking over from the Conference is the biennial fall session held at points distant from Boston and devoted to discussion of the spiritual aims of our denominational effort. The biennial conference is increased in importance by the merging of the two bodies. The gathering retains the completely free representative character that has marked its history of more than 60 years and its self-direction by the right to appoint its own committees of arrangements. Its actions, however, have a greater significance than before, in that they are binding in everything except appropriation of funds...
...jarred through the brains of the townsmen, mingling its drowsiness with the reveries of sleepyheads until that jargoning has become part of the normal somnolence of the place, part of the indistinguishable murmur of the summer countryside, the wash of the salt air and the brooding rhythm of the distant sound...