Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the opening of the season only four days distant Coach F. G. Mitchell, veteran University baseball mentor, yesterday picked the squad that will play in the Boston University game on Saturday and make the annual Southern trip during Spring vacation...
...Harry Trimmer and his wife, all of Priddis, Alberta, Canada, got out. Harry Trimmer is postmaster at Priddis and runs the general store. Fred Perceval has had a cattle ranch there for a good many years, but he had to give it up. A dozen deaths among distant relatives made him tenth Earl of Egmont, Baron Lovell and Holland, Baron Arden. He was going to Castle Avon at Ringwood to take possession of his ancestral home...
...return to the American branch of the organization. It expects its men in foreign service to remain in the Far East indefinitely. To men of a more or less adventurous spirit who are interested in the possibilities of a large organization which promises good rewards in a distant field, this Company is distinctly deserving of careful investigation
Came a sudden cloudburst. Roads were washed out. Impossible to move. Black night descended. Fitfully in their busses the travelers dozed. Came, out of South Africa, a noise like distant thunder, then the full-chested, long-drawn reverberant roar of lions in the bush, a sound no lion makes in captivity...
...prints of lower Manhattan Island, the outstanding feature is a slim spire rising high above the shops, residences and counting houses around it-the spire of Trinity Church. Nowadays the only distant prospect of Trinity spire is up that chasm of counting houses from which residences long ago departed, Wall Street...