Word: distant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Schedule." With his business embarrassments thus detached and distant from his home town, Frank Costello lived as openly as his more respectable neighbors along apartment-lined Central Park. He followed an almost unvarying routine ("I go places so regular they call me Mr. Schedule...
...Student Body President Art Whitman, a distant cousin of the founder, the students went to work in a rash of pep talks and rallies. At one rally, members of the faculty showed how they felt by turning up in football uniforms. Then the crusade moved into downtown Walla Walla...
...more distant future is hardly likely to see either a repetition of World War II's Pacific naval battles or such mass bombing raids as the air assaults on Germany. Great fleets on the sea or in the air will be canceled out by the guided bomb, the guided missile, the proximity fuze, he thinks...
These weapons and many more-in awesome priority, the atom bomb-are in the arsenal. So, ruminatively, Dr. Bush looks into the near and distant future...
Winthrop was a distant second with 75 points and Leverett took third with a 112 count. They were followed by Dunster with 114. Dudley with 119, Adams with 124, and Lowell with 126. Eliot was last with...