Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newspapers, which President Angell says "frequently exaggerate" the importance of these games, understand full well the signifificance of the present tendencies and they have not hesitated to remind the educational leaders of the country of the problem which they must meet sometime and probably in the not very distant future. It is distinctly an event to read in the annual report of the head of one of the greatest of American universities, and one famous for its athletic achievements, such a paragraph as this...
...this again, perhaps, because the ground was prepared. The 1924 board had attempted a definite policy of a nature calculated to undermine "paternalism" in the college. In their farewell editorial they grieved that paternalism was "still upon the throne" but prophesied hopefully that the time could not be far distant when Yale would "progress to a system of voluntary attendance at classes and church." "Then," continued the editorial, "we may look for a development of individualism and bid a fond farewell to the mold that stamps every Yale man alike." It was not perhaps a very radical program; perhaps most...
...minds of thousands of his followers--mainly because they were his followers by the way, and not because they were intelligent enough to understand or to visualize it--who has created a definite goal, toward which all nations will find themselves irresistibly urged in the perhaps not distant future, cannot be said to have failed. It is true that he could not perform the impossible task of instantly overcoming the inborn inhibitions and accumulated prejudices of the Senate, or of the American people or of the world. It is unfortunately true that he had no way of raising mankind...
...authoritatively stated in Vatican circles that the creation of foreign cardinals (TIME, Dec. 10, Dec. 31) had only been postponed. The distribution of red hats to foreign prelates was expected to take place "in the not far distant future...
...announced by Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, where the pictures are being studied. Our universe is estimated, at the maximum, to be 350,000 light years* in diameter. N. G. C., 6,822 is a million light years away (six quintillion miles) -the most distant object known. The cluster was first observed by the late Dr. E. E. Barnard, but his tele- scope was too weak to resolve it into stars...