Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whatever happens, British politics will continue to career about in a vicious circle until another, and probably not far-distant, general election restores some semblance of rectangular solidity in the House of Commons. Until that time, whichever party holds the reins of the stately old Government coach, that worthy vehicle will continue to circle an eccentric perimeter, despite the efforts of the Cabinet driver to go straight ahead...
Shipments of clothing collected in the recent Phillips Brooks House clothing drive are now on their way to several distant parts of the world, it was learned yesterday from H. K. Thayer '25, who was in charge of the 1923 drive. One case of articles has just been sent to Beirut College, in Beirut, Syria, where the Phillips Brooks House Association maintains several missionaries. Destitute German students in Marburg University, Marburg, Germany, will receive another consignment. A third shipment has been sent to Utica, Mississippi for the students in the state normal and industrial institute, which has recently been destroyed...
Coach Lewis' purpose in holding these trials is two-fold. With the first meet of the season against Columbia only four weeks distant, concentrated preparation is necessary, which is impossible with the present bulky squad. In addition, he believes that the men can learn more wrestling under actual competitive conditions than in any other...
...intelligent progress and experimentation in the past. And if this their latest experiment of comparison is given a fair trial and due consideration, they may achieve their desire. A proper fusion of the Oxonion tutorial system with the still youthful Harvard tutorial system, may in the not-too-distant future produce a wholly desirable system--to be called, perhaps, the Superlatively Successful; to be welcomed, perhaps, by all departments that aim at education...
DUSE-Returning after a lifetime of public deification and personal unhappiness to display in a distant land the talents of the greatest actress in the world. In Italian...