Word: distant
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Actually it was another sort of star in the distant past and it will be still another sort of star in the distant future...
...crossing motorist, even more than on distant spectator, the Bronx-Whitestone...
...system. I hope you are not building on that expectation. . . . Only if we are beaten down and the greater part of the fleet has been sunk in action will the remains of it leave home to assist in the defense of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and other distant parts of the Commonwealth. ... It is my view that we are standing today not in the outer trenches of our old joint naval defense system but in the last trenches...
...Knights of the Round Table and the Crusaders have fallen back into distant days, not only distant but prosaic; but these young men are going forth every morning, going forth holding in their hands an instrument of colossal shattering power, of whom it may be said that every morn brought forth a noble chance and every chance brought forth a noble deed. These young men deserve our gratitude, as all brave men who in so many ways and so many occasions are ready and will continue to be ready to give their life and their all to their native land...
...Killed on the Western Front was another, more distant relative of the royal family, Grenadier Guardsman...