Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nigger Lovers." In two distant and different Southern small towns last week hell and high water almost came. In Clinton, Tenn. (pop. 4,000) white mobs rioted in the tree-shaded streets and the old courthouse square to stop the enrollment of twelve Negro students in the local high school. Clinton is the only place in Tennessee (except the federal enclave of Oak Ridge) to integrate its school, and outsiders came streaming in last week to lash the little town back into line...
...Dewey, a Republican of later vintage, looked to the less distant past. "Mr. Truman," said he, added to Chicago's "enlightenment of the day by declaring that Mr. Stevenson could not win. Then he went further. He solemnly warned the country that it should not risk a trial-and-error Administration under Mr. Stevenson ... I should say this-that the nation is indebted to Mr. Truman for this involuntary lapse into objectivity...
...guess when the picturephone will be offerd to the public, or how much it will cost. But a company spokesman says; "We wouldn't be monkeying around with the thing if we didn't believe we could offer it to telephone subscribers in the not too distant future...
Says Ryle: "If most of the radio stars are in fact collisions between galaxies, such encounters apparently are considerably more frequent in distant space (perhaps billions of light-years away) than near us. This disparity would argue against the steady-state hypothesis that the density of matter in space remains constant. The radio signals we are now receiving from distant collisions started on their way billions of years ago. If the evolutionary theory is correct, the universe should have been denser then, and encounters between galaxies more likely...
...tradition has it that the Holy Cup of Nanteos is not the Grail but a vessel later made from the wood of the Cross. During Henry VIII's reign, when monasteries were abolished in England, the relic was smuggled to various monks' hideouts until it reached some distant kinsmen of Mrs. Mirylees. Whatever its origin, the cup is a holy relic of Christendom...