Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Banker Morgan had personally brought about the agreement. But his departure, not for a Mediterranean yachting cruise this time but for the distant U. S., signalized the finality and success of the efforts of his fellow delegate, Owen D. Young. The press of all nations concerned joined in thoroughgoing applause for the onetime New York plowboy who, real author of the so-called Dawes Plan of 1924 and patient chairman of the so-called Second Dawes Committee, had at last had his name written into the history of world finance as author of the now-agreed-to Young Plan...
...seems that once in the dim and distant past there lived a sage named Hesiodus, who, reflecting upon the vagaries of human nature, exclaimed: "The HALF is MORE than the WHOLE." If he was not thinking of Adam before Eve was born, he undoubtedly had in mind, with prophetic vision, the advent of TIME...
Foolhardy General José Rafael Gabaldon raised the flag of revolt against blue-spectacled General Gomez in the distant provinces of Lara, Trujillo, and Portuguesa with an army variously estimated at 50 and 500 men. Venezuela's old Commander-in-Chief moved quickly. Against the 50 (or 500) rash rebels he sent the troops of General Eustoquio Gomez, of General Pedro Maria Cardenas, of General Léon Jurado Felix Galavis and of General Juan Fernandez. To Acting President Juan Bautista Perez he sent the following telegram...
...reel film portraying activities in the Harvard Botanical Garden in Cuba, one of the most distant outposts of the University, has just been released by the University Film Foundation. The picture, which was made possible by the generosity of Mrs. E. F. Atkins of Belmont who financed the expedition, was photographed by W. O. Field '26 and directed by Professor Oakes Ames...
...port is an hour's ride from the city, it takes away the advantage of flying time. On a trip from New York or Philadelphia to Washington, the time required going to and from distant landing fields would add so much to the flying time as to leave little advantage over railroad transportation...