Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...early Central American tribes, notably the Aztecs. An example of this similarity may be had by considering the painting and tatooing of the body practiced by the natives of Central America and by those of the Canaries. The designs of the painting and tatooing of these two peoples, far distant geographically and separated by thousands of miles of water, are practically the same, and even the wooden stamps for impressing the paint on the body are much the same...
These experiments and a vast multitude of others have so advanced our knowledge of cancer that we may hope for the full solution of the problem in the not distant future, says Dr. Smith. He pleads for financial support for responsible and detailed cancer research, rather than prizes attracting a flood of " cancer cures...
...Lady from the Sea is considered by critics one of the lesser works of Ibsen. It centers entirely on the character of Ellida which has " suffered a sea change" through years of lonely residence in a lighthouse. She is distant, disturbing, detached. Into her early life there had come a wandering sailor who had taken her heart away with him upon his travels. Thinking him drowned, she had married a stuffy country doctor. The sailor returns...
...group B. In group A of the High School group will come the larger schools such as Boston Latin School, Medford High, or Newton High schools which are near Boston and have long had organized track teams. In the secondary division, group B, will fall the smaller and more distant high schools, such as Glouster High School or Fithburg High...
...ordination of work already done or a groundwork on which to do some hurried building, will especially appreciate this opportunity. To the freshman as well, the course will offer an opportunity for making wise provision against a rainy day. To him divisionals still seem a dim and distant horror, a cloud no bigger than a man's hand". But the storm comes on space and the death-bed absolution furnished at great cost by tutoring bureaus is apt to be a sorry affair...