Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...daily toil, a motion-picture actor is engulfed-profile, esthetic sensibilities and nervous stomach-in an atmosphere depressingly reminiscent of a submarine dockyard. The sound stage in which he works is as cavernous and gloomy as a wharfside warehouse. The day's set, thrown up in a distant corner as if to dramatize the phoniness and gullibility of man, is bathed in a glare of blue-white light as blinding as that from an arc welder's torch. Half a hundred hairy union men tinker stolidly with furniture, electrical cables, fuse boxes and cranes, or peer down...
...based on the separate but equal doctrine which last week's decision knocked out. The U.S. Circuit Court in New Orleans said six Negroes who sought to enroll in the all white school should be admitted because it would be more costly and less convenient for them to attend distant Negro schools...
...wreath on the monument to Mary Washington, mother of the first President. In Fredericksburg, Ike met two lively old ladies. Mrs. Julia Link Wine and her twin sister, Mrs. Martha Link Quick, 85, who had gone to school with Ike's mother and turned out to be his distant cousins. He had come to Fredericksburg, said the President, "to pay tribute to the state which gave Washington his mother and gave me mine." Then, with a parting smile for his newfound cousins, the President got back in his car and drove home to Washington in the rain...
...will not seek a near but a distant objective and you will not be satisfied with what you have done. All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern which from his separate approach every true scholar is striving to descry...
Most of the objects on the plates are stars that belong to the Milky Way galaxy, but beyond them are external galaxies which are so far away that they may be considered motionless. As the Milky Way galaxy revolves majestically, its stars seem to stream past the background of distant galaxies. The stars themselves seem to move at varying speeds because of their varying distances and their own individual motions within the galaxy...