Word: distant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...body was located a grappling iron was lowered and hooked onto the ski clothing. Then ropes were tied around the legs and the body hauled out of the tunnel. A fresh crew was called in to carry the body down on a stretcher to Pinkham Notch, two miles distant...
...more distant prospect is Ozzie Cowles, father-in-law of Ben McCabe, jayvee football coach. Cowles had a brilliant team at Dartmouth and moved from there to Michigan, where he produced a Big Ten Champion quintet. Now at Minnesota, he had a great season there last year...
...Distant relative of Mexico's ex-President Lázaro Cárdenas...
...Dismayed. Empson's paradox is that he preaches Oriental passivity in the most dynamic sort of Western verse. This is symbolic of Empson's life in China, where he shared the hardships of the Japanese war with his students, trekking overland from Peiping to distant, mountainous Yunnan province, a distance of some 1,800 miles. Books were lost in the flight, so Empson gave a whole course in the English metaphysical poets from memory, reconstructing John Donne's songs and sonnets by substituting lines of his own for lines he had forgotten...
...conflict between the Maritains on the one hand, the Staces and Bridg-mans on the other, a decision was still distant. But there could be no doubt that the Maritain position, which was widely derided as the century began, had once more gained a growing following among troubled men searching for truth...