Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...floes shifted and the three ships began to move northwestward toward the North Pole. Meanwhile Joseph Stalin had sent an air expedition to rescue the crews. The fliers reached the ships on April 2, promptly arrested Professor Samoilovich for bungling, thereby giving him the distinction of being arrested closer to the North Pole than any other man in history...
Lickety-split from a blizzardy Georgia vacation went William Lyon Phelps to New Haven, to see a Yale production of Timon of Athens, which put him one step closer to his life-long ambition: to see all of Shakespeare's plays before he dies. Of the Bard's putative 37 dramas, Emeritus Professor Phelps, 75, has now seen all but Two Gentlemen of Verona, three-part Henry...
...Cordell was the third son by seven months." I can conceive of the possibility of this being true, but it is the first time that I have heard of brothers or sisters being closer together in age than ten months. Please assure me that no typographical error has been made...
Author Cabell claims credit for at least sticking closer to the original story than Shakespeare did. He certainly sticks closer to Cabell than to the Vikings. Like his score-odd previous tales (Jurgen, et al.), the trade-mark of Hamlet Had an Uncle is arch pedantry, medieval rhetoric, amorous innuendo...
...Dunham Lectureship is intended to "bind closer the bonds of fellowship and understanding between students and investigators in this and foreign countries." The lecturers are appointed annually, and are drawn from among the leaders of medical research by a committee at the Medical School...