Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miners in the deep galleries of Illinois' New Orient Coal Mine No. 2 froze in their tracks, stood staring and listening in the dark. Their ears felt clogged by a sudden compression of air. Wind touched their faces. Some heard a low, distant rumbling and a rattle of doors. That was all. They began to run, heading for the 535-ft. elevator shaft which was their first hope of escape...
...thrown new light on its smoke-darkened silhouettes. Using a mixed technique of tempera with oil glazes on heavy canvas, Stuempfig gradually built a spacious river town veiled in a warm and somehow sad early morning dimness. The neo-classical composition recalls Corot's Italian landscapes, and its distant, county-courthouse dome might almost be mistaken for St. Peter's in Rome. "Pennsylvania towns," Stuempfig insists, "do have an Italian look...
Source of the second difficulty is the College's distant location from places with winter-long snow. Dartmouth, Middlebury, Vermont, and New Hampshire are situated right in the heart of such areas, and snow for daily practices at their backdoors gives them a tremendous competitive advantage...
VERMONT-12. Divided. Governor Lee E. Emerson, uncommitted, is claimed privately by both sides. National Committeeman James F. Dewey, distant cousin of the New York Governor, is for Taft. State Chairman Frederick P. Smith indicates his support of Eisenhower...
...year or two. Since most non-resident students commute because they cannot afford to live in the College, such a plan would work only if men living in the Boston area were given additional scholarships. Giving scholarship money to these men would keep it from equally needy students from distant parts of the country. Such a solution is no solution...