Word: distant
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Advance registrations from points as far distant as California are pouring into the Harvard Club of New York City, host to the forty-third annual meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs which will be held in New York...
...even provide it with raw materials in time of peace. A second theory that has been much mentioned is that Greenland would be valuable to Germany as a naval base or air base. There seems to be little possibility of such a move in any but the very distant future, however. Even at the beginning of the war, the German navy was not strong enough to carry on extensive overseas activities, and if we are to credit any of the reports from Scandinavia, the German navy must have been weakened greatly at the Skaggerak and the surrounding waters...
...Allies and possibly be in a position to send an army of aggression to Greenland, the, conclusions drawn by the Tribune still fail to hold water. Faced with the choice of sending ships and planes to Europe now or possibly having to fight Germany in our waters in the distant future, the interventionists have drawn a bad hand. It would be comforting to believe that the gentlemen of the Tribune were vulnerable to the charge of faulty logic rather than that of insidious intent...
Since the last World Series there have been many "incidents" leading up to our war. For one simple thing, it has been ruled that the Yankees can't trade in their league. For another more complicated item, a certain Judge Landis, of the Kenesaw Mountain Landises (distant kin of the local, urban L.L.D. Landises) has TNECed the great monopoly mystery of chain store baseball and declared an army of free agents. For still one more, and this may prove most important of all, it has been decided that the pitchers may in delivering the ball take two steps with...
...Leningrad last week Joseph Stalin's best friend could hear the rumble of distant artillery. He could see long trains loaded with men and supplies departing for the front, returning trains unloading their wounded. In spite of an absence of blackouts and air-raid alarms, Leningrad was a city at war - the only city in Russia where the Finnish war seemed real. For that war is not so much Russia's war as it is Leningrad's. Although Russia's army comes from as far south as the Caucasus and its material from the banks...