Word: farflung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scene in Sydney was doubly sorry because the yacht was the Marabel, a pleasure craft which had just been remodeled as a hospital ship and given by Miss Susan Dwight Bliss of Manhattan to the hospital at Indian Harbor, Labrador, a unit of Dr. Wilfred Thomason Grenfells famed and farflung medical missions. The Marabel was laden with winter supplies for hard-working doctor- preachers. The women burned were Grenfell volunteers, the Misses Harriot Houghteling of Chicago, Ill., and Margaret Pierce of Haverford...
...very great service for West Virginians and their state. It has brought to the defense not only them, but their friends scattered throughout the United States, and it is most gratifying to see proof that friends and defenders of the "truth about West Virginia" are widely scattered and farflung. We are hearing from them from unsuspected locations...
Gambler Bonfils was frozen out. The wealth of a farflung syndicate was against him. He did not "call" the News at five gallons but took his beating. The News averaged some 25 columns of want ads per day to the Post...
...music lover, who had contributed over 15 millions to their alma mater yet had steadfastly refused to address a Tech audience since they first began asking him in 1916. At that, his words came from behind the barrier that space and wavelengths afford retiring natures. But to the farflung "phantom" diners they were real words...