Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half an hour the crowd craned and squinted for a glimpse of the racing hounds crossing distant rises. Once, the whole pack was in view, 2,000 feet up on the fells. Meanwhile, though the H.T.A. tries to prohibit betting after the first 15 minutes of trailing, the bookies continued intoning odds and grabbing money. The H.T.A.'s concern is understandable. In the past, nobblers (English version of U.S. fixers) have been known to ambush a favorite, or give a longshot an autoborne boost along the trail. Other nobblers, working hand in glove with bookies, have been jailed...
...which Sarnoff believes will be ready for use at this summer's political conventions. Using pencil-size tubes and miniature components, the 53-lb. walkie-lookie carries its own battery in a pack strapped to the operator's back, can relay images to re-transmitters as far distant as one mile...
...during Pickering's forty two-year reign that Harvard began establishing its distant posts. Picketing set out in search of conditions of atmosphere most favorable in "respect to clearness steadiness, and equability of temperature." He experimented at stations between 6,000 and 14,000 feet in the Rockies in Colorado. Performing work at the higher attitude ever attempted including Pike's peak...
...reaction, South Africans have resigned in droves from the armed forces to join the ranks of Torch Commando, the anti-Malan political rally formed last year by a young South African air force ace, "Sailor" Malan, who is a distant cousin of the Premier Malan he fights. "Not a single self-respecting white man" would join Torch, a Nationalist minister once prophesied. Last week Torch claimed two of South Africa's most distinguished soldiers. One was General George Edwin Brink, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., Croix de Guerre. The other was General James Thorn Durrant, who was eased out this year...
Right now, according to Skinner, "there is a potent weapon--to be found--a way to control man's behavior." We can see the effects of propaganda in the press and radio. In the not too distant future, someone will find out how to control man's actions completely. It had better be us here...