Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James Whittaker: "The play is our good old friend 'One Night' with Cleopatras served up in costume from distant dressmakers. It adds notably to our knowledge of how the Puszta peasant gets into his Sunday clothes and as scandalously to our knowledge of how he gets out of them...
...doubt whether college authorities would approve of sport which involves so much time. We made inquiries a year or two ago and found that there was practically nothing available for many miles outside of Cambridge and that the cost even of distant possible sites was prohibitive. Incidentally the President is not in favor of a subscription being taken up among the graduates for such a purpose...
...distant past it was possible for the raw American youth with a half-formed fancy for law to enroll as clerk in the firm of the revered local "Judge," and at the feet of the mighty, glimpse the realm of torts and crimes. But when colleges rose in the backwoods and daily assignments replaced daily chores this personal contact between novice and initiate was largely lost. It is only occasionally, therefore, that the student who dreams vaguely of a legal career has an opportunity of meeting a master of the profession. And such an opportunity is extended tonight when...
This means that when it next meets, and this will be no farther distant than three weeks time, it will have three definite points on its agenda. It will hear the report of a committee on the advisability of an additional Senior dormitory and will Vote on the report. It will hear a report on the managerial situation and Vote on the report. It will also decide in favor of or against a plan for its own reorganization. All three are important subjects for discussion, varying in degree. But the third offers more opportunities for accomplishment in that while favorable...
...occasionally exposed at the surface, there is a hard crystaline composition which defies analysis. This stratum the investigator likens to the Pre-Cambrian, and assumes to be of great antiquity. Upon this base are laid numerous formations which at recurring intervals indicate an accumulation of debris from the most distant regions of the continent. Traces of Colorado gumbo, New Jersey sand, and Ohio clay were identified. The dominant type, however, was a dust which the analyst designated as Cantabrigian...