Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...science. In the years to come, others may rail at authority and scoff at law; Eddie will be a constant supporter of the established order. For him the glow of the State House dome will always be more than mere gilt paint, and the majesty of government something less distant than a vaguely imagined, impersonal "they...
...Long Island, its bleak, brown countryside frozen stiff and hard by the hoary winds of December, never looked more woebegone and distant that it did today. . . . An old manor house, the property of one of the first governors of New York state, situated on the top of a little knoll at Plandome, is the residence of a half-brother of our wife, Martin Littleton, the well-known criminal attorney...
...distant, as Gray would say, prospect of eating...
This departure from the policy followed by former dormitory committees was adopted primarily in order to take care of transfer students who have come from distant parts of the country and have therefore had little opportunity to become acquainted with many students in their class: and also for men who have lived at home for their first three years in college, but who desire to live in the Yard during their Senior Year...
...daily press gives it a place of honor on the front page; and the Sunday editions immediately put on weight. Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne and one or two more of the better known empire-builders-where are they compared to the great Buonaparte? Dim and distant figures. Time may be re- sponsible for this inequity in interest. But not even the Duke of Wellington, who was born in the same year as Napoleon, nor George Washington have ever attained that universality of fame which belongs to the Little Corporal. Hence, because many millions of words have failed...