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Word: distantly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...President's Agreement of the early twenties was its ban on inter sectionalism: and the Princetonian of that day hailed the passing of cross-country rivalry "as a mark of progress." We lament its return as a mark of regress, and predict that in the far distant, but far saner future only natural rivals will do battle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H--Y-P | 12/18/1930 | See Source »

Placed at the radio centre of the U. S. amid good atmospheric conditions and well removed from high tension power lines, this station will serve the Department of Commerce as a monitor of the air, capable of bringing in the most distant high-frequency broadcasts throughout the world. Scheduled date of operation: Nov. 15. Purpose: to check up the licensed wavelengths of the 20,000 wireless, broadcasting and television transmitters in the U. S.,* to keep them in their proper communication lanes, prevent "jaycasting." The cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: Monitor | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

...world has forgotten the significance of November eleventh, and the joy of victory has given way to the happiness of a day of rest. This is altogether natural. To those who fought, the war has become four years of far off turmoil. For the others it is only a distant memory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARMISTICE DAY | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

...that the Michigan game has illustrated the greatest benefits of the Athletic Association's rotating schedule policy. The game in Yost Stadium not only gave a large body of Alumni a chance to see the Crimson in action, but it did much to promote mutual understanding between the two distant universities. It is regrettable that the series is so short and it is not too soon to look to the future when it may be resumed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TWAIN SHALL MEET | 11/8/1930 | See Source »

Calvin Coolidge has his thousands and Al Smith his tens of thousands. That one is an enigmatic Yankee and the other a simple Irishman is far more important to their followers than the issues which they personify. In the not too distant past these men held of flee. They were symbols of the beliefs of two great parties, a fact which now means little to the cheering multitudes it is enough that they were something...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PUBLIC VOTARY | 11/4/1930 | See Source »

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