Word: farther
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...outbreak of the war and in September joined the American Ambulance of Paris. During the week of the battle of the Marne the section to which he was attached did service in the neighborhood of Paris, following the armies back toward the Aisne as the fighting moved farther and farther away from the city. In October this section was attached to a British Red Cross unit with their base near Neuve Chapelle in Northern France and was later moved to Dunkerque and then to Eleverdingle, near Ypres in Belgium. At this last place the cars did the advanced field work...
Although the wooden stands at the Stadium have been made larger than ever before this year, and as a consequence have been placed three yards farther back, yet their occupants will be nearer the field of play than in the past, for the gridiron has been moved five yards nearer. The seats in the bowl will not be materially affected by this change...
...will. Her forward-passing game is not dangerous, and she launches a driving attack from her Minnesota shift formation better qualified for midfield gains than for gains inside her opponent's thirty-five-yard line. Perhaps she can work up her off-tackle slashes so that they will carry farther than they did against Princeton, but if she can repeatedly get Guernsey anywhere from Harvard's forty-yard line on she may not need touchdowns in order to win. For Guernsey is a toe artist of real stature. As to the Yale players individually it is impossible to speak, because...
...University team. At the half-way mark the course led over West Rock, an elevation of over 400 feet. Going up this fall, the Crimson representatives as a rule fared as well as their opponents and all were forced to alternate between running and walking. The way down the farther side of the hill was exceedingly steep with steps a large part of the way. Over the good stretch from the bottom of the hill to the finish, there was little change in the order of the runners as the positions gained earlier in the race were generally held. Platt...
...drawback is the man who is in politics for his pocket and not for public service: in other words the lobbyist. There are many men in politics who repeatedly bring up bills simply in order to be bought off; once getting legislative protection in business, a corporation often goes farther and wants legislature to help their business...