Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sail to a far distant shore...
...Events of recent months have made me keenly aware that the time is not far distant when I must lay down my trust for others to carry forward. When one comes to close grips with the eternal things, there comes a new sense of relative values; and the less worthy things lose significance...
...Council Chamber of the Corporation of the City of London), Premier Baldwin arose to make the usual speech expected of British Prime Ministers on this occasion. Many times in the history of the Guildhall important political speeches have been voiced within its wall and have echoed to the dim, distant parts of the world. Premier Baldwin was at a disadvantage, however. Just reappointed Premier, he was compelled by custom to make his first speech, as such, before the first Cabinet Council had met. It was not, therefore, surprising that the Premier took pains to clothe his speech in vague generalities...
...Distant Sun, now shoots a feeble...
...twitter to a hundred-ton football cheer. Modern ingenuity has learned to "can" music. Certain modern composers have succeeded in extracting the melody from it, and producing compositions of pure noise. Music may be bought by the sheet, the roll, or the disk. Perhaps the time is not far distant when it will be priced like cabbages, at so much a pound...