Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troubles closer to home than the East Indica appeared on the southern horizon last night as the Dominican Embassy reported that a three-ship expedition was steaming from Cuba to invade the Dominican Republic. They told newsmen that the "expedition" was composed of two landing barges and one corvette equipped with cannon and machine guns...
Actions of Congress, however, have put Hawaii even closer to statehood than Alaska. . . . Hawaii's enabling act, appropriately dubbed H.R. 49, has been placed on the House calendar for debate during this session of the 80th Congress...
...Arithmetic of Peace. No one was sure just what price Lewis had exacted in terms of hourly wage increases for his miners. The United Mine Workers said 35?; the operators said closer to 45?. The arithmetic was complicated by changing the $11.85 nine-hour day to a $13.05 eight-hour day (including an hour to travel from the mine portal to the face of the working and back, and a new half-hour lunch period). The arithmetic was further complicated by doubling the royalty paid into the miners' health & welfare fund to 110? a ton (between...
...keepers had the beasts stuffed and reinstalled in their cages or in glass showcases. In death as in life the zoo's star attraction was Tora San, the huge tiger. Propped up before a painted backdrop of lush green jungle, his bared fangs sent many a moppet scurrying closer to his mother's kimono...
...Only an illusion, explains Herz. Actually, he says, the sun is much closer to the earth than most people suspect; in fact, it is probably somewhere near the South Pole. What people see in the sky is not the sun, but its "reflection," cast on the earth's atmosphere. Moreover, the earth, according to Herz, rotates more slowly than is generally believed-perhaps as slowly as one revolution every 28 days. Since the dawdling sun's "reflection" whips around the earth every 24 hours, it's not very surprising that people have been confused all these years...