Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gray-flanneled gentlemen who invade the distant regions of the United States selling Eastern colleges to Western students have an extremely difficult task. In the territory of strong state universities, of community ties, fraternities, and low tuitions, they must speak of something which is at best a reputation. They must build almost solely upon this reputation to outbid the local universities. It is a hard job for everyone, but for the few overworked men from Columbia University, the task may often seem insurmountable...
...Korea to fight Communism, and that she has a redoubtable rival: "l'humanité...the last femme fatale." For though her lover bursts with poetic talk about keeping her happy, he is committed to "man's oldest profession, which is to be forever reaching for some distant goal of Justice and Liberty...
...cavalryman with the cavalryman's inbred dislike for position warfare, he stepped into the command with no illusions of cheap successes or quick victory. Little known outside France, he was a cold, distant figure when he arrived in Saigon and took steps to make himself inconspicuous and to avoid the press. With his chic blonde wife (a descendant of Joachim Murat, the Napoleonic King of Naples), he moved into the rambling residence of the commander in chief. ("Why," exclaimed Mme. Navarre when she first saw the big place, "it's like a railway station!") For weeks he toured...
Headed in the opposite direction for her year of study is Elisabeth Hanna, who left her TIME desk with a Fulbright scholarship to work in Italy at the University of Perugia and the University of Florence. Scholar Hanna, a distant relative of President-Maker Mark Hanna of Ohio, is a young lady working her way up in the newsreporting business. She came to TIME a fluent linguist in German, French and Italian, with a scholastic background of study at Vassar, Barnard and the University of Berlin. This year she learned how TIME handles its network of foreign correspondents...
...Exposition, in which the store had invested $50,000 and 12,000 man-hours of labor. By the shrewd device of awarding "Distinguished Service" plaques to outstanding designers, Mr. Stanley, as usual, had brought headline names* scurrying to Dallas from all over the world. Many another headliner came from distant points just to bid for the privilege of paying $12.50 (turned over to the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts) to be among the 1,000 paying guests in the first-night audience...