Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...applaud his slashing attack. But what really touched off the crowd was a seemingly casual reference to Ohio-"a state which has contributed so abundantly to America's leadership both past and contemporary." Added MacArthur: "Indeed, indications multiply that this leadership may even increase in the not-too-distant future...
...long, long time after its formal chartering of Radcliffe in 1894, Harvard was generally cordial but distant. The attitude of most men was not so much one of scorn, but of (and we blush to use the word) indifference. In 1908 The Harvard Illustrated News (which was edited by H.V. Kaltenborn '09) ran an article entitled "Radcliffe on Harvard" which indicates attitudes then prevalent on both sides of the Common. The article, by an anonymous Radcliffe undergraduate, said in part...
...Place in the Sun is the story of George Eastman (Montgomery Clift), a poor, ambitious boy who pursues the dream of a Horatio Alger hero to his own undoing. He hitchhikes to the distant city, where his rich uncle manufactures swim suits on the vast scale and cuts a swath in local society. There, from a shipping clerk's job in the factory, George catches tempting glimpses of a life of wealth, glamor and importance...
Here is what happened. When Publisher Hearst died Tuesday the TIME presses in Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles were clicking out 70,000 copies an hour. As fast as the early-run magazines rolled off, they were bundled into trucks and trains for distant points. Since Hearst's death, a major news event, was reported before a quarter of TIME'S U.S. distribution was on its way to readers, the editors ordered the presses stopped...
...salad days of war, meek, myopic Prince Hironobu Fushimi, distant cousin of Emperor Hirohito, was a middle-aged captain in the Imperial navy. His country's defeat left him a civilian, and like other kinsmen of the Imperial family, without title. His Tokyo mansion had been bombed; he built himself a modest cottage on the site of the ruins. There he and his wife, the former Princess Hanako Kanin, settled down as plain Mr. & Mrs. Hironobu Kacho...