Word: distant
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...jobs of Little's office is to keep track of the very distant Harvard clubs in places like Japan and Germany. During the war there was even a temporary Harvard Club of Moscow which Conant addressed during a brief visit there on war work...
Fortunately, says Historian Berrill, Columbus did not know all that modern natural historians know. He sailed on & on, believing that each dawn would light a distant rock. Each misread sign gave his fractious sailors a new shot of hope too. On their tenth day out of San Sebastian, they had more water before them than behind...
...Rally, Addams shows his full cast of professionally baleful bad characters: the gaunt, string-haired young witch who looks somewhat like a vampire on a vegetable diet; her oily-swarthy spouse who is intended by Addams, a loyal Democrat, to bear a distant resemblance to Governor Dewey; their bloated little boy, who resembles something preserved in alcohol, and a handful of useful extras, including a butler edition of Boris Karloff...
Other objections are equally cogent. It is simply a waste of time for a professor and his staff to file a mid-term grade for each student: the grade is sent off, chewed up by an IBM machine, and then filed in a distant archive, to be forgotten forever. Only men with the poorest grades will be hauled up before the Deans and prodded...
...Force: From 48 groups and 411,000 men, the pre-Korea strength, to around 60 groups with 568,000 men by June. Distant goal: 95 groups...