Word: nearest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Between 7.30 and 9 o'clock tonight the public has been invited to study the planet Saturn, before a lecture by Dr. W. J. Luten on "The Nearest Stars", at the Harvard College Observatory on Concord Avenue, opposite Huntington Street...
...license of the court of the Medicis. After puffing up the stairs, admittedly the stout English gentleman again, a great Flemish tapestry room would transform him into a portly burgher. Yet the sight of an Elizabethan fireplace would make him the happiest of all. Sinking naturally into the nearest eighteenth century chair, despite signs to the contrary, he would muse away an hour culled from England's past...
...what American college can the undergraduate most readily support himself? Apparently Syracuse. At least Syracuse has the largest number, 2,000, of students wholly or partially earning their own way. It is well ahead of its nearest rival-Columbia...
This is the introductory paragraph of a New York Tribune editorial: "If passengers were sailing under a captain who announced the opinion that icebergs were good for a ship, and who thereupon steered his vessel for the nearest berg, what would they do? Would they argue that the important thing was to teach him a jolly good lesson-give the old man rope to hang himself, and so on, and let the ship drive on? Or would they do everything in their power to block him and incidentally save the ship ? "Mayor Hylan is the captain. And New York City...
...nearest cotton futures have fluctuated around the high level of 31? recently established, with speculative dips and spurts of small scope. The Census Bureau's report of domestic consumption as 567,000 bales for February compares with 610,000 for January. When the fewer days in February are taken into consideration, it will be seen that despite superficial appearances, the consumption rate for the latter month has really been higher than that for January. The chief cloud on the cotton trade horizon just now is the impending strike of 36,000 employees in the cotton mills of Fall River...