Word: far-flung
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...daily feature called "The Doctor Tells The Story." It was Editor Patterson's own product. It came to him last month in a letter from Dr. William Edmund Aughinbaugh. elderly physician, lawyer, author, explorer, who worked on plagues in India, Burma, Arabia, China, Latin America, many another far-flung frontier. Dr. Aughinbaugh proposed that the News print a daily anecdote from his long and adventurous career. Editor Patterson liked the idea, decided to try it. For a month the strip ran along with fairly typical reminiscences of a traveled medical man. Then, last week, it burst out with...
...different technique from that of the Robert Gordon Switz's in Paris. Soon after his arrest by the Finnish political police last October on charges of high treason and espionage, the French Government let it be known that Jacobson and Switz were mixed up in the same far-flung spy ring...
Over New York City's far-flung police teletype system one night last week clicked a strange order. Each & every New York policeman was directed to constitute himself a censor, see that 59 proscribed magazines were henceforth neither exhibited nor sold in the 2.000 licensed newsstands on the city streets...
...John Harvard's Biggest Boy," appearing in the American Magazine for October is a typical example of a "college circulation drive." The "big news" at Harvard now is its new president, James Bryant Conant; ergo an article on the same will make the far-flung readers notice the broad interests of the editors, and will also flatter the young Cantabrigians into a twelve-months subscription. Written by a noted sportswriter, a great pal of our prexy, to judge from the incessant "Jim" in the biography, the article also marks another tract of the serious prose which has been occupying...
...does not even like to have it said that he has made millions, but today, father of eight children (seven of them daughters, all married), he owns a ranch in Wyoming, "the show place of the Black Hills," from which like Hearst at San Simeon he rules a far-flung empire by private wires. He has also an estate at Sands Point, L.I., and this year he bought the magnificent Miami villa of the late Albert Russel Erskine...