Word: farthest
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...other hand, needs copper, zinc and lead, not gold. A change for fiscal reasons in its gold-purchase policy is the farthest thing from the Treasury's mind. But the U.S. had another club over Empire miners, and it was fingering this club last week. It can refuse to export any new gold-mining machinery, which many an Empire mine-to maintain and (in some cases) expand production-is still trying to buy in the U.S. Before long SPAB is due to rule on these pleas, and the odds are that SPAB will be pretty tough, will...
These were typical of the angry, worried words which flew in the capital of the British Empire last week when it was learned that Singapore, farthest-flung fortress of the Empire, was in grave danger. But the warning was amiss. The Government dispensed no syrup. It appointed Alfred Duff Cooper, onetime Secretary of State for War, onetime First Lord of the Admiralty, onetime Minister of Information, who has been in Singapore for 15 weeks, to be Resident Minister for Far Eastern Affairs. He will have Cabinet rank, will be equal, if not superior, to Commander in Chief Air Chief Marshal...
...FARTHEST REACH: OREGON AND WASHINGTON-Nancy Wilson Ross-Knopf...
...biggest bores in the whole bleak record of synthetic folklore). There is also a good map and 48 superb photographs. But Mrs. Ross's humor, sensitivity to the ways of a people whose pioneer forefathers are not all dead yet, make Farthest Reach one of the best books written about the North west...
...that live in the farthest outpost of Harvard will meet the championship Yale College, Silliman on Saturday morning in what promises to be a rip-roaring touch battle at 10 o'clock...