Word: faraway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same moment it went back several years in movie methods. The sheer mass of ancient spectacle, so popular in the faraway days of Intolerance...
Fish. A new method has been developed whereby Norwegian herrings, Siberian sturgeon, faraway fish of every kind may be served in inland U. S. cities in the same luscious, savory, juicy state that they enjoyed when caught. The method consists of freezing so quickly and at so low a temperature that the flesh cells are not injured by ice crystals. The chemical composition remains the same; there is no opportunity for bacterial development or decomposition...
...humble but well-beloved village of Morning Sun to a college town so that his children may have the advantage of college education. When this has had its effect, redheaded, eccentric Warren is a well-tamed professor; Sarah is a kind, sensible, placid young spinster; Wilma is married and faraway; Wilfred, who had especially liked rabbits or other animals, is dead in France. Wise Mrs. Bonney is dead too, and foolish, likable Mr. Bonney has inexplicably taken himself another wife. This humble, quiet homily, neither gay nor tragic, has a brown plainness of treatment to match its substance...
...dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, irrevocably dark, total eclipse without all hope of day," she could pity Milton, "upbraiding the world in high astounding terms," whose "light was spent ere half his days." She could doubt, in her heart, that it was a Nemesis who, that faraway, forgotten winter, had laid his hand upon her eyes. She could sense, perhaps, a certain graciousness, a certain ironic but charming delicacy in the fate which permitted Helen Keller who had been deaf and blind almost since her birth to read, last week, the story of a compan- ion pioneer...
...their power to say how often and how far the teams shall or shall not go. The attitude is one of weighing the true value, or rather lack of it, in such distant contests. If more athletic committees could be started along this same path of judging those faraway sport encounters which require an obvious loss of time, of money, and of energy, at their just worth, the problem not only of magnified freshman sports, but also that of over-emphasis on athletics generally, would be a long way, toward being solved...