Word: out-of-the-way
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...professional education, the medical student does not have it easy either. With the price of a microscope (range: $500 to $1,000) added to what he pays for tuition, books and living expenses, he cannot hope to get by for less than $1,600 a year at an out-of-the-way state school, closer to $3,000 if he goes to a private school in a big city. Then, with a minimum of a year's internship at niggardly pay, he loses five years (beyond college) during which he might have been earning money. For the schools...
...best methods of discouraging attack. Such preparation, he wrote in This Week, lies in building underground air-raid shelters deep enough to withstand the impact of the heaviest bombs. "They would be expensive but. . . I believe we could save the lives of most of our citizens. In out-of-the-way places we should build other shelters to protect food supplies and our industrial resources. We could store weapons for our armed forces. We can make sure that we retain the potential to strike back not only to hurt an enemy that attacks us, but to destroy...
...many concentrators have also found a dearth of competent and experienced tutors, particularly in the out-of-the-way branches of History and Lit., which are advertised as being offered by the Committee...
...efficient manner. If he knows, for example, that Professor X generally parks for about an hour, he can put his car near the front of a lot, and if he knows that Professor Y spends the whole day in his lab, he can put his car in some out-of-the-way nook...
Schmidt chose a varied program wholly devoted to intriguing and rather out-of-the-way items. The opening "Hail, bright Cecilia," by Purcell, had the proper majesty, though there was a bit of trouble with a few of the tricky entrances. Brahms' brooding and richly colored Song of the Fates fared well, and again showed that Brahms has no superior in the handling of the choral medium...