Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to Conant, the scholarships discouraged applications from outside of the East. "The rumor soon spread among the schools even in distant localities that Harvard was interested only in the straight 'A' boy," Conant declared...
Although Eisenhower will probably grant the Selective Service division permission to squeeze out some of the deferred, particularly fathers, college exemptions will continue--until the distant and presently doubtful...
...Rittenburg had just taken the baton from Paul Grand, and was rounding the curve when he slipped and fell. When he got up, the Crimson, which had been a close third was a distant fourth. Fourth it remained, too, despite a fine anchor leg by Al Howe. Columbia won, with Princeton second, and Yale third...
There is one distant ray of hope. By Darwin's reckoning, the average animal species continues for only about a million years without major change. After that time the human species, still very young, may have produced a new species. Perhaps the neo-humans will be able to keep their numbers adjusted to their food supply without the help of starvation...
...conventional marriage because this was Trinidad. Like their parents, who had arranged the deal, the young marrieds could neither read nor write. Now they were going to the distant town of Barataria near Port-of-Spain, the capital, to start life on their own with Urmilla's dowry: a cow, a thatched hut and garden, 200 Trinidad dollars. The neighborhood kids were there to see them...