Word: nearest
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Even in Thai cities, the old and new live in exuberant competition. Bangkok's harbor is busy with superb modern port construction; but workers and engineers engaged on it prostrate themselves before Buddha. Conductors of streetcars are likely suddenly to stop their cars and relieve themselves behind the nearest hedge. Little boys of the ultramodern, totalitarian youth movement, Yuvachon, are forced to wear shoes to drill, but on the way home happily carry them in their hands...
Through the columns of the CRIMSON the Clubs extend a hearty invitation not only to all students but to all officers and members of the Harvard Club nearest to them during the Christmas recess...
...German Army is able to occupy. . . . There is no single example of the voluntary participation of any nation in the new order. . . . [It] displays not one single attribute of an order-not custom, consent, legitimacy, legality, moral authority, or even a mere partnership of give and take. The nearest analogy to it is the temporary empire of Napoleon Bonaparte, and yet that empire at its zenith was more nearly like a new order than any thing which Adolf Hitler has yet constructed. . . . Yet within a few years this imposing empire had collapsed. ... It was not a true order, and therefore...
...Negro paid his dollar. Then he took his "checkbook" to the nearest liquor store, which promptly called the Better Business Bureau, set Manager Gordon Smith investigating. The National Depository of America, he found, is the brain child of Frank O'Hearn, a former Toronto broker. Since 1932 his avocation has been economic theorizing. Its culmination is the National Depository, whose purpose is to "bring permanent prosperity to America." Its details he guards with crusty jealousy. After all, says O'Hearn, it took him eight years to figure out the scheme, so he doesn't expect anybody...
...evidence, he goes to the great apes, nearest kin to man. They show - and inherit - wide differences of personality. Gorillas like to thump their chests. Both gorillas and chimpanzees do crude dances and rhythmic poundings, but orangs and gibbons do not. By people who have studied them closely, gibbons are usually described as shy, gentle, amiable, affectionate. Gorillas are reserved, deliberate, discreet. Chimpanzees are lively, responsive, emotionally unstable. These temperamental differences are obviously not due to variations in the natural habitat, for animals born in captivity manifest them. Moreover, at this stage, differences between individual members of the same species...