Word: faraway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the familiar haunts of Radcliffe to faraway Cleveland, the young women-hood of America will converge here to emulate the doings of such former Jubilee guests as Chill Williams and Ann Sheridan...
Vastly different from MacVeagh is his colleague assigned to Ankara, Edwin Carleton Wilson, 54, who was also called to Washington. No specialist, he is a general practitioner in the diplomatic profession, which has been his lifelong career. During more than a quarter-century divided between faraway legations and duty at the fountainhead in Washington, Wilson has acquired sureness and efficiency. Not only is his embassy the best-run in Ankara; he has a knack of anticipating State Department wishes. Perhaps most important, Wilson is willing to take responsibility for quick decisions when there is no time for consultation-a quality...
...back to Dr. Langmuir that he was about to begin. Then he carefully scattered six pounds of dry-ice pellets through the cloud in a belt three miles long. In two minutes flat the poisoned cloud was writhing with agonies so enormous that Dr. Langmuir could see them in faraway Schenectady...
...year-old mother, runs across an ancient phonograph record (Rudy Vallee's My Time Is Your Time) and a quaint old snapshot of something called a flagpole sitter. In heaven's name, mother (gasps the bobby-soxer), what was life like back in those funny, faraway times? Most of Margie is mother's flashback, Technicolor-and-music reminiscences...
...better sort of man than most of his fellow colonists. To these rough, tough Spaniards, many of whom had fought as conquistadors, brutal subjugation of the Indians seemed the obvious and only way to solve the vast problems of the huge, semitropical land. Pious Emperor Charles V, in faraway Spain, tried to end the feudal system that made the Indians worse than slaves (no one was responsible for their care). He wanted the Indians to be given patient, Christian, religious instruction. Planters and priests alike flatly defied the royal edict. When the Emperor authorized his emissary. Bishop Bartolome...