Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of War Weeks intimated that he might be able to answer most of the questions of investigators in regard to General Wood's administration, but that as regarded Leonard Wood, Jr., the Secretary was not concerned with the "mothers-in-law, the cousins, or the distant relations of persons in the military service of the country...
...imagination to conceive of the pain of nakedness and sores. The undergraduate buttoning his overcoat as he hurries to a ten o'clock, may buy a pencil from the old woman crouching on the corner, but the rush of his daily activities blinds him to the starving students of distant Europe who subsist solely on bowls of soup and a tremendous inspiration to learn. Could those poor students march through Harvard Square as classes let out for the lunch hour, could they make their request, no matter how silent, in person, the silver would flow in rivers...
Artists and mountain climbers have at least one common qualification. Dizziness must have no terrors for either. Perched on their respective peaks, the world becomes for them a distant and not particularly agreeable noise, wafted irrelevantly from an ignoble abyss. Conversely, the world is insignificantly concerned with the doings of the Alp scalers. Once you get appreciably above sealevel, you cease to be anybody's business. Incidentally, you cease to have any business of your own. Therein lies the glorious, soaring futility of art and mountaineering alike. Neither of them have any conceivable relation to life and the practical living...
Petroleum producers and refiners are beginning to recover somewhat from their blue funk of recent months, and to foresee the day, not far distant, when the heavy stocks of crude oil now accumulated through overproduction can be materially decreased. Oil shares on the New York Stock Exchange have experienced a general recovery, and the price of crude petroleum in several fields is likewise showing a rising tendency...
...have a "fighting unit of not less than three men" to be given weekly instruction in the use of firearms and in sapping. The instructions concluded with the hope that "the party will step by by step embrace the proletarian forces of America and in the not distant future raise the red flag over the White House...