Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speech at Naples, His Majesty Benito Mussolini said: "I am a servant of no master but the Nation. I ask no reward but my conscience. It is enough that I can look forward to a none too distant date when I can lay aside my task, strong in the knowledge that I have accomplished something useful...
...devoted to speakers goes mostly for railroad fare and hotel bills, since most of the speakers give their time free. Radiocasting will cut down some of the traveling expenses, but will add instead another cost? the use of telephone wires for carrying speeches to distant radiocasting stations. Every radio speech now costs several thousand dollars...
...failure of Spain to pacify the Moors is due, from a military standpoint, to the mountainous country in the hinterland of Spanish Morocco. Movement of troops, maintenance of communications, so vital to distant garrisons, are some of the tremendously difficult problems with which Spain has to contend...
Already one play has lived and died in an effort to retell the general narrative theme of Abie's Irish Rose. Reports from distant parts indicate that the producers of this uncannily successful product will spend much money through the season exhorting the population to beware of imitations...
COBRA-A very fine young man, like Adam, is vigorously deceived by a distant daughter of Eve. No child's play...