Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Impressed listeners were always sorry to discover later that plump Novelist Ford had actually never been closer to No Man's Land than Paris...
Preparation of the food new suffers because of lax supervision in the kitchens, according to Bruce's report. The University will be urged to keep closer check on the stewards and to instruct them to keep a watchful eye on the chefs...
...fitted well with tradition. Few processes of U.S. government move with such glacial ponderousness as those involved in the creation of a new state. Alaskans, who had voted 3-to-2 to add a 49th star to the flag, were one step-though perhaps it was a short step-closer to their goal...
...Canada's ocean navigation, and at the portal of 1,200 miles of inland waters. From December to April the port is ice-locked. Yet it handles a third of Canada's commerce, exports more grain than any other port on the North American continent. It is closer to Liverpool than any U.S. seaport, is the nearest ocean port of any size to central Canada and to the U.S. Midwest. "If it were not for the barrier of ice," wrote Stephen Leacock, "Montreal might easily be the greatest port in all the world." In 7½ ice-free...
Great Expectations. Most envious among the visitors to Constantinople were the Moslems, who for eight centuries drew a net of conquest closer & closer about the capital. When Mohamed II finally succeeded in crashing Constantinople's triple walls (in 1453), the townspeople hopefully streamed for their proudest monument, the Church of Saint Sophia, assured by a prophet that the Moslems would never conquer it. "In the space of an hour," wrote Historian Edward Gibbon, "the sanctuary, the choir, the nave, the upper and lower galleries, were filled with the multitudes of fathers and husbands, of women and children, of priests...