Word: farthest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shoot an arrow from a six-foot yew-bow, to hit a golf ball, to throw a baseball, to cast a heavy fishing-slug for distance in the surf -manly exercises all. But does the missile fly farthest from rod, arm, club or bow? Which engine is superior in speed, in accuracy? A hypothetical question, surely; one that might be debated i Erewhon on Midsummer Day, with Walter Travis expatiating kindly to Amos Rusie, Izaak Walton put-tnig in a gnarled, shy word, and the laughter of Robin Hood foaming clear and soft like...
...University was left half a length behind at the start of the race when no one in the Crimson shell heard the referee order the crews to row. The Crimson had the lane of the course farthest from the referee's launch, and was jockeying into position when the crews were sent away. Princeton and Yale had put in about five strokes before the Crimson blades caught the water, but Merrill kept his crew spurting till he caught Princeton, which had taken a half-length lead on Yale at the start...
...even when these points--which are after all pretty simple--have been considered, one has hardly got beneath the surface. What are these subjects supposed to do for a man? What have they done for the men of your acquaintance who have gone farthest in them? What territory do they cover? If each were summed up in a single volume, what would be the chapter headings of that volume? (For some of those chapter headings will be the titles of the courses you will take if you concentrate there). Above all, what sort of a "view of life" does each...
...just two young Ohio brothers, now in their middle 40's, who, a few years ago, settled in Cleveland. O. P., the elder by two years of these two quiet, clear-eyed, clear-headed young men, took an option on some pasture land three miles out beyond the farthest car line and began to subdivide it into building lots. They began to develop it and, after a time, found that they had to have transit lines, that they would have to furnish transit themselves. So they opened negotiations with the Nickel Plate Railroad, which had a right...
...tutoring of Ned Weyburn, even Congress might be expected to accomplish something. Think what master-pieces would flow from the pen of Chesterton should he spend an hour daily with Gilda Grey! And the work of a John Roach Straton who had mastered the shimmy is beyond the farthest reach of the imagination...