Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking back on their 50 years of publishing, the editors have found a curious kind of repetition that sometimes passes for progress. The propeller-equipped parachute of 1918 seems a not-too-distant cousin of the experimental "Hoppicopter" of today. In 1907 they were teaching the home carpenter how to build an underground clubhouse. Today the structure is more elaborate and has been renamed. The last item in the book is a basement A-bomb shelter for private homes...
...again after World War II, some curious reports drifted in to puzzle the radio men. No one had thought that V.H.F. was good for much besides short-range contacts, but now & then people were picking up TV programs they had no right to see; pictures from distant cities were flickering across their screens. Hams operating on V.H.F. frequencies were talking across astonishing distances...
...distant future, that is. Between now and Saturday we'll take any bets on Yale--up to ten dollars...
...York's Surrogate Court yesterday gave final approval to the will of Mrs. Hetty Green Wilks under which the University receives $2,000,000. The will had been questioned by distant relatives of the late Mrs. Wilks...
Except as a distant allegory, The Conformist leaves the larger part of Fascism unexplained. Yet, as a picture of one particular Fascist, it is a thoroughly convincing book. It is flawed somewhat by a languorous analytical style which prevents it from picking up dramatic speed, but even second-rank Moravia makes fine reading...