Word: farther
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter of E. P. Waterman (TIME, March 13), I should like to know if he and his friends are natives of New York City. If so, they can't be afraid of the out-of-town friends who may call them up for they have probably never been farther from home than Philadelphia...
Surveying him suspiciously, the bartender withdrew the drink farther and farther from reach. "You study, doncha? That's enough...
...Council would have preferred to hold the referendum farther in advance of the date scheduled for the elections; unfortunately the petition bringing to our attention the dissatisfaction of some fifty-four members of '42 with the system was not presented until last Thursday. As it is, the Crimson is right in suggesting that the presentation of the question to the class has been onesided. The publicity in the Crimson has been almost wholly adverse to the retention of the elections. I should have thought that the timing of the referendum favored the opponents of the elections. But the Crimson...
...view of the German push to the East. Would he threaten Hitler? Would he talk about Russia's armed strength? To everyone's surprise his remarks were addressed not against Germany but against the democracies, whom he charged with "urging the Germans on to march farther East, promising them easy pickings and prompting them: 'You start a war against the Bolsheviks and then everything will proceed nicely.' " Their ulterior motive, he said, was to get Germany and Russia into war, let them knock each other groggy, and then, he intimated, step in to knock them both...
...consuming personal ambition had been thwarted. In New York he had campaigned several times in vain to be elected mayor or governor; his papers could make or break small officials, but they never got Hearst farther than two unspectacular terms in the House. In 1922 Al Smith refused to run on the State Democratic ticket with him and at last Hearst knew he would never be President. And so after 27 years in the East he moved back to California and began to surround himself with a grandeur that no other private citizen has ever matched in U. S. history...