Word: closers
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Wispy Hydrogen. Tugged by the gravity of a passing star, chunks of the Oort debris are occasionally pulled into orbits closer to the sun. Then perturbed further by the gravity of a massive planet, probably Saturn or Jupiter, they often enter a highly elliptical orbit that swings them close to the sun and then so far out again that they do not return to the vicinity of the sun for years. Some, like Encke's comet, which makes a pass around the sun every 3.3 years, have relatively small orbits. Others loop out billions of miles from...
Since 1947, Harvard and Radcliffe have moved ever closer to full merger, with Harvard degrees going to Radcliffe graduates in 1962 and the Houses becoming coed...
...President, who abhors rationing politically, ideologically and administratively, managed to avoid even using the word when he went on television last week to outline a series of less stringent conservation and allocation measures. But by week's end the relentless press of events was sweeping the Administration closer to the dreaded decision...
Radcliffe just squeaked out with a win over Mt. Holyoke at the Wellesley Relays earlier in December and the rematch between the two teams was billed to be closer than it actually...
Piazza's arrest brings the police no closer to the missing money. The police still hold a warrant for the arrest of an East Boston man. The search continues...