Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just over the boundary from Spokane, Wash. They did a land-office business. Meanwhile, other slot-machine towns assumed new, weird shapes: the village of Crouch, for instance, pushed its limits out in a strip one foot wide and 10 miles long, to make slot machines legal in a distant roadhouse...
...Bruegel, who turned inches of paper into miles of thousands of mountainside by the application of thousands of tiny ink lines sensitively stitched and pyramided together. Claude Lorrain's Sermon on the Mount created a hilltop grove, shepherds and their flock, a wide and crowded harbor and a distant town, all with a little ink and broad watery washes. Peter Paul Rubens' delicately tinted watercolor of a farmyard was as tender and vivid as April grass. Thomas Gainsborough's charcoal sketches showed that he could read the face of a field as surely as a human expression...
...dark countryside from airway ground beacons. Soon they will see the same fingers aloft. At least two airlines are equipping planes with General Electric's new rotating tail lights. They will sit on top of the vertical tail fins, and their powerful periodic flashes will warn pilots of distant planes that they are not alone...
...varsity basketball, straight from a three week layoff and a distant over-time victory of B.C., meets Tufts tonight in the Jumbos gym, in what should be a close, hard-fought game...
Howe touched off five yards behind Princeton anchor man Tom Elgin and closed down a 12 year gap into just inches, but Elgin held him off to win in 3:24:3. Yale was a distant third...