Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eleven players wearing the Andover Blue for the first time this season will face the University Second team this afternoon on the schoolboys' gridiron. Coach Daley, the Andover mentor, is not expecting an easy afternoon with the Harvard seconds, but his objective game with Exeter is but two weeks distant and he can afford to take no chances with his first string men, so he is sending in a full team of substitutes...
Prior to the dawn of this age Hercules held the world's record for infantile achievement. Since his day, however, standards are higher. His vulgar strangling act was but the rude and distant precursor of a Children's Crusade in all the arts...
...Toronto, the Baron of Renfrew listened to words of greeting from the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and the worshipful Mayor. He responded to the proffered welcome, dashed away to New Market, a few miles distant, took part in a hunt. His horse fell at one point and off shot the royal rider. He, however, gave chase to the nag, caught it, remounted, continued the hunt. In the evening, he was dined at the Ontario Government House; later, he danced...
...later years. At the age of 50 the undergraduate will wish he had studied more at college, instead of spending four years in loafing. At this age he would not care to be a C man, but he seems to regard the half-century mark as so far distant that it is not to be considered...
...pleaded for the conservation of helium gas for use in dirigibles. He also foresaw a day when whole flocks of airplanes, guided by radio from a distant plane, would go forth to bombard enemy cities...