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Captain Ludovici is answered in much the same vein from a far-flung Anglo-Amazonian outpost by the second wife of the Hon. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, lately-retired scholar of Cambridge University...
...precipitated by the heavy liquidation of shares in the Stinnes companies, which are suddenly beset with lack of working capital and other serious difficulties (TIME, June 8, 15, GERMANY). The sons of Hugo Stinnes have not exhibited their father's conspicuous financial abilities in carrying on his far-flung business interests since his death. But even were the elder Stinnes still alive, it is doubtful whether he could have passed through the recent stockmarket storm unscathed...
Last year you were good enough to note the fact that I was editing a volume of Best Sermons, and the notice brought me a shower of sermons from all over the land-which shows how far-flung the influence of TIME...
...whether or not Boston lives up to its far-flung reputation as a patron of the arts?" said Walter Hampden, producer and star of "Cyrano de Bergerac", which is now playing at the Opera House, to a CRIMSON reporter Saturday. "Well, sir, Boston wins no prizes as a drama-loving city...
These figures gave point to the speech of James L. Barton, guiding spirit, who said that none can understand the vast scope of the missionary enterprise of this one denomination unless he has seen the far-flung work of its departments of evangelism, education, philanthropy, sanitation and hygiene, literature, industry, uplift of womanhood...