Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...persons for whom they are intended. His experiments, extending over a considerable period, will soon be put to the acid test on his specially fitted yacht Electra, on which he will cruise down the coast of Europe and Africa. Messages will be sent from Wales and other distant places to test his theory. The secret is being closely guarded, but the method is said to depend on a new kind of receiving instrument, whereby stations can tell the point of the wave's origin to a fraction of a second...
...State cannot endure without the valuable assistance of capital. The absorbing need of Russia at the present time is machinery, both for industry and for commerce. If this need is supplied Russia may well enter into active commercial competition with the rest of the world at a not far distant date...
...signed letter to the press, thanking the public for their reception of The Merchant of Venice, David Belasco promises " at no distant date" a series of Shakespearean productions: King Richard II, King Henry IV (both parts), Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet (with Lenore Ulric). The "no distant date" will be at least next season...
...whole history of the vision of those who began the reindeer industry in Alaska shows that they only erred in having no idea as to its possibilities. Labrador is the nearest port of America to Europe. It is 1600 miles distant from Ireland. Its coast is easy of approach in the summer, there being no sand banks, and all its innumerable harbors having deep water. Sir William MacGreggor and I collected speciments of its flora and sent them to Kew, England, for a report on their ability to support reindeer; the report was absolutely favorable. Everyone who knows Labrador, knows...
...aeroplane, to be sure, has got beyond the point where it needs to be defended. But its full value today and the important part in the business of the world which it has assumed already,--not in a far-distant, visionary future,--are very little realized. Amundsen has not yet flown to the North Pole, and aviators are forbidden by the law to shoot ducks in New Jersey. These are spectacular news items; but in a matter-of-fact, inconspicuous way "Langley's Folly" is justifying its existence a hundred times over...