Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Illinois to Hungary. Even in the eighth century, Americans, though facing mainly the challenge of their own Western opportunity, reacted again and again at the popular level to events bearing on freedom and justice in distant lands. In 1849, for example, Americans and Britons alike were sympathetic with the erupting nationalist revolutions in Europe, and particularly indignant about the Habsburgs' brutal suppression of the Hungarian revolution. In September 1849, well before the days when there was a Hungarian bloc anywhere in the U.S., a promising Illinois Congressman named Abraham Lincoln proposed a resolution to a pro-Hungarian mass meeting...
...mother was a Virginia Stuart, descended from an impressive roster of jurists and socialites-but not, as reported, directly from Confederate General James Ewell Brown ("Jeb") Stuart. Jeb apparently was a distant kinsman, a member of what Outerbridge's forebears joked was "the cadet branch of the family...
Astronomers are cosily familiar with stars quadrillions of miles from the earth, and with galaxies much more distant. But Pluto, a member of the sun's own planetary family, and only 3½ billion miles away, has little personality for them. The outermost member of the solar system, it shines only feebly by reflected sunlight. Even in the biggest telescopes it looks like a faint star; only its motion among the real stars and a slight fuzziness prove it to be a planet. Astronomers are not sure how big it is (probably midway between Mercury and Mars), but recently...
Schneider noted that the fencers suffer from a geographical disadvantage being 220 miles from the chief fencing region, New York. Almost all the Crimson's rivals are closer to New York--one of the most distant being Yale...
...Crimson eleven started the season by crushing UMass, 60 to 6, but won only two more games, losing 21 to 7, in the snow-filled Yale Bowl. Dean Bundy predicted on October 24 that tuition would go up in the "not distant" future, and confirmed the increase on January 19 when he announced that tuition would cost $1000 in the next academic year...