Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inside, the tone is of serious, diligent endeavor; and one realizes that the day will not be distant when Yale will know as much about John Barleycorn as it does about James Boswell...
Favored Cornell's 53 points proved the experts were right on at least one count, but Army's second place 60 and the Crimson's 62 were real surprises. Yale, expected to give Cornell a close fight for first place, finished a relatively distant fourth with...
...Distant Pastures. Carnation's devotion to research has already led it far from its original pasture. As one of the West's biggest makers of animal feeds, its Albers Milling Co. Division sells a line of feeds for hogs, turkeys, chickens, mink and quail. It spent $1,000,000 to develop a dog food, Friskies, has rapidly branched out into cereals for humans, and soon may be making fertilizers and insecticides...
...distance, lessening its protective value, U.S. strength was rising. The worst that the U.S. faced in World War II was the possibility that Europe and Asia, in the hands of its enemies, would be able slowly to weaken the U.S., or to force it to fight without allies on distant and unfavorable battlefields...
...rises and sets on New York City." Certainly football coach Lou Little would be quite upset if the third group were suddenly taken away. Of 34 men on the varsity team, eight come from the metropolitan area, nine from the suburban area, and 17 from the more distant regions...