Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army's low point total was 27. Princeton was a distant second with 97, and Cornell placed third with 98. The other finishers in order were Brown, Yale, Pennsylvania, Harvard, Navy, Dartmouth, and Columbia...
...rejuvenated Philip Murray and his staff of strategists. Leaders of the biggest Red-run union of them all, the United Electrical Workers Union, did not even show their faces on the convention floor. They huddled in Cleveland's Allerton Hotel, sniffing the cold, strange wind and making distant and preposterous sounds of defiance. A day before they and their little brothers, the Farm Equipment Workers, were expelled, they packed their bags and fled...
Wheels Down. The young traffic controller looked into the sky over the distant roofs of Alexandria, southeast of the field, and saw the fighter circling at 5,000 feet. He switched to its radio channel, told its pilot too to circle the field in the left-hand traffic pattern. He got no acknowledgment. As the transport began its final turn, the men in the tower saw a fearful sight-the fighter, wheels down, was streaking straight in for the same runway on which the DC-4 was about to settle down...
From South Africa to New Mexico the University owns property in many obscure spots or else has "permanent" research centers located in distant communities. The term "Harvard" has a local meaning to natives of Stratford-on-Avon, the Island of Yap in the Pacific, and the Pyramid region of Egypt...
...tests, a six-year-old child is seated in front of three cylinders, one right before him and the other two a short distance away. The child is asked to name his favorites of two toy figures on the two distant cylinders...