Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will not allude to his attitude toward the Russian working classes, but his attitude toward the Russian peasant is for us an interesting psychological problem which needs to be studied. Maxim Gorky warns us thus: 'Leaders of the Bolshevists, remember my words! The day is not distant when the Russian peasants will revolt against your terrorism, and then, woe unto you! They will ruthlessly "unscrew" your heads...
...swim, gently at first. The runners loped, tentatively. The muscular mastodons perspired. Meanwhile another ocean liner moved out of New York harbor to plow her long furrow eastward over the Atlantic. Appropriately named the Homeric, this ship bore more of America's cohorts to Olympian conflict in the distant land. On her decks lounged the famed Yale crew who, with their slender octoreme, had been rushed aboard still panting from victorious exertions against Harvard on the Thames (TIME, June...
...gather that, in the opinion of the protagonists, the Government, Federal, State and Municipal, the universities and colleges, the foreign policy and the provisions of the tariff and international law, should all be administered to the advantage of the ventilated mouse-trap trade. You perceive that the discovery of distant regions, the creations of works of Art, Music or Literature are but casual exploits compared with the work carried out by the sales force of the ventilated mouse-trap trade...
Twenty-five years of age is he, and rumor has it, a distant relative of the Heaven-born ruler of Japan. He took up golf but four years ago and in that period he defeated Donald Parsons of Youngstown in the Pinehurst mid-Winter tournament, thus capturing the title...
...Another unique exhibit (by Dr. Julius H. Hess, Chicago) was a completely equipped station for the care of premature infants. It included am electrically heated handbag for transporting premature babies from distant: points to the station, especially made garments, electrically heated cribs arid safe apparatus for bathing and feeding. Premature twins whose combined weight at birth was three and one-half pounds were brought by these methods to seven pounds each within three months...