Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unit and Military Science courses are valuable opportunities and as such deserve the support of the undergraduate body. It is to be hoped that the day on which they become more than valuable opportunities is far distant...
Some American Horses. Zev, the Harry F. Sinclair colt, who won the Kentucky Derby, the Withers, the Paumonok, the Belmont, the Rainbow Stakes. He has been called " the greatest of the three-year-olds " of the 1923 season. He is the most logical and likely contender. He is a distant cousin of Papyrus...
This settlement of the grievance between Russia and Great Britain will slacken for a time the tension along the long Asia frontier, reaching from Mesopotamia to Thibet, Burmah and the Malay States. A bugaboo in the shape of a Russo-Japanese alliance fostered by acquiescent China, and drilled by distant Germany, may have enough reality to alarm the farsighted. In the meantime the British naval base at Singapore is being built; the Russo-Japanese danger can be faced when it arises...
...doubtful that the Soviet promise to end anti-British propaganda means much, as the Communist Party, which drills and sends out the agitators to Turkey, Persia and the distant goal of British India, from the propaganda schools of Samarkand and Tashkent, is technically not the same as the Soviet Government. The British prestige in Asia is the first line of defense that any such combination must destroy, and that will take more than propaganda...
Christian Science. The religion of Mary Baker Eddy has spread to such distant points as Tientsin, Riga, Bulawayo. At the annual meeting of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, the clerk's report showed a gain of 79 societies, and 16 churches. There are now 2,061 branches of the " mother church." Christian Scientists publish no total membership, but it is known that their rate of gain is not as rapid as it was ten years...