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Word: farthest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...friends to shrieks of laughter to see me do this, but thus far I have found none of them able to follow my lead." "Wearing the knee breeches of Octavian (a boy's part in Der Rosenkavalier) as they should be worn, worried me ... I am the farthest removed from being 'mannish' that a woman possibly could be. I practiced standing and sitting and moving about in my knee breeches, and walked miles in my room before I reached the point

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jeritza Confesses | 6/23/1924 | See Source »

...Smoot, the Mormon elder, tall and slender as a mast, with a voice like a wind murmuring among the halyards, went unostentatiously about his business. Fess, coming forward in a halting defense of his brother Ohioan, Daugherty, met the biting attack of the active, relentless Norris. While from the farthest cor ner, Magnus Johnson, in broad Swedish accent, vouched for the distress of the farmers and threatened, if he were re-elected next Fall, to "but in" on their behalf as he had not done during the apprenticeship of his brief ad interim term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Closing Hours | 6/16/1924 | See Source »

After discussing all the pros and cons of bathing from the Weld Boathouse, it was finally decided that swimmers would still be permitted to use the float, but that they would only be allowed to enter and leave the water by the east and of the float, the end farthest away from the Anderson Bridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS MAY RESUME SWIMMING FROM WELD | 5/22/1924 | See Source »

...University Glee Club members, who will sing on its Christmas concert tour, will spend most of the coming vacation in a railroad sleeper, since the club's itinerary includes seven widely separated cities to be visited in ten days. St. Louis is the point farthest west on the trip, and Washington the point farthest south. At each stop the men will be entertained by the local Harvard Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB WILL SPEND VACATION IN SLEEPERS | 12/12/1923 | See Source »

...strike has been arbitrated, Dr. Abbot now reports. The four per cent, diminution noted since last year has returned to normalcy, and more sun spots are now appearing. A new cycle of spots is beginning in the solar latitudes farthest from the sun's equator, according to observations by Professor G. H. Peters, of the U. S. Naval Observatory. The number and size of spots will gradually increase for about eleven years, until a maximum is reached, when they will again fall off. Electrical disturbances are commonly associated with sun spot increase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stars and Sun | 11/19/1923 | See Source »

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