Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time for dinner, but Fred von Rekowsky, New York City "ham" radio operator, was determined not to turn off his set until he found out what the distant voice was trying to say. It seemed to want "New York only." The static was bad, but through it he caught a murmur of soft English: "Emergency . . . to try and save a child's life...
Scottish Artist Archibald Robertson painted it in 1792, on commission from Washington's distant kinsman, the eleventh Earl of Buchan. The earl's fancy: to have a picture of his revolutionary relation as first President of the U.S. Supposedly mislaid, the picture was found hanging in the hall of the 15th earl in 1939, identified as Robertson's Washington. Last May, the earl sent it off to Sulgrave Manor (since 1914 a Washington shrine). Not especially publicity conscious, Sulgrave Manor just got around to announcing the acquisition last week...
...Most Obvious. The Administration raised horrified eyes to heaven, but the vote was only another chapter in the long story of its own fumbling with the economy. A year ago inflation was only a distant threat; its pressures had not actually set in. Then Congress whooped through a tough control bill and thrust it on the Administration. While a panicky public went on a buying spree and bid prices up, Mr. Truman refused to use his powers. By the time he got around to it, high prices, largely induced by fear-buying, were almost out of his reach...
...Columbia River sweeps majestically, a curve of green water up to 17 feet thick. It falls so far (320 feet, twice the height of Niagara) that it seems to fall slowly. The roar of the falling water, though loud, is as smooth as the sound of surf on a distant beach...
...would be possible to lead Sacramento water directly to thirsty Bakersfield at the distant southern end of the Central Valley, but there is an easier way. If farmers on the lower San Joaquin are given Sacramento water, they will not need the San Joaquin water that they use now. Then the main flow of the San Joaquin can be diverted well upstream and used as far south as Bakersfield. This is "water exchange...