Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President and Mrs. Coolidge have received a great number of invitations from neighbors, both near and distant, since they have been in Massachusetts, extending a wide range of social courtesies. They have been most appreciative of the many tenders of hospitality and entertainment that have come to them, and have regretted that their circumstances are such that it seems impossible to accept these invitations...
...bituminous coal producing territory, desperate attempts are being made by large financial interests "to repudiate the wage contract in the soft coal fields. Certain railroads, notably the Pennsylvania, have preferred to buy coal from distant non-Union fields rather than buy from Union mines in their own territory. Several soft coal producing companies have repudiated the wage agreement, including 1) the Consolidated Company in which John Davison Rockefeller Jr., "an estimable man with fine traits, religious and God-fearing," is a large stockholder, 2) the Pittsburgh Coal Co., "one of whose most influential stockholders is Andrew W. Mellon . . . perhaps...
They made money out of her and they laughed at her. She was a Queen-hard up, probably-trying to make a little money on the side by soiling her dainty fingers with ink, writing in a language she did not know to satisfy the curiosity of distant crowds. They were hard-boiled journalists who never soiled their stubby fingers with ink because the office boy changed their typewriter ribbons when necessary...
Except for the distant roaring of the steel foundries of Charles M. Schwab, and the irreverent cannonade of a thunderstorm whose salvos rocked high heaven and shook the windows of the church wherein burghers and visitors had gathered to hear the trombone choir and the local soloists deliver Bach's Christmas Oratorio, the little town of Bethlehem, Pa., lay still. Conductor Wolle raised his baton. A clap of thunder split the sky like a peasecod. Lightning assaulted the darkness through every shivering window, and the place seemed, for a moment, to be filled with whirling laughter, like the mirth...
With the Yale meet only a week distant, the Crimson appears to have only a fighting chance to win. In a comparison of strength from previous performances Yale has a margin of from fifteen to twenty points over Harvard. With all the Crimson athletes in good condition, the meet would be closer. Fletcher, the best Hurdler, will not be able to compete again because of illness...