Word: farthest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Left. Like the Democrats in the U.S. under Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Liberals are made up of many conflicting groups. The farthest left wing is tinged with socialism; the farthest right is more conservative than many Tories. Only the political skill of Prime Minister King and the unifying influence of the war have kept groups from splintering off before this...
...Army sent a radar impulse to the moon, heard it bounce back. This was the farthest stretch of human communication. It said nothing whatever...
Despite the record enrollment, classes at America's "farthest-north university" were still small, rarely more than 20. President Bunnell wanted it that way: he thought students ought to know each other and their professors well. As in past years, there were a good many sourdough scholars, older than the average undergrads in the States; they had gone to the university for its courses in agriculture, mining and engineering. But this year there were also 215 ex-G.I.s and former WACs who had traveled thousands of miles, some because they liked Alaska, others because they couldn...
...this first drawing for rooms, only those living farthest away--probably from Wakefield, Milton, Quincy, and possibly Lexington--will be considered. Watson's office will work on the outer fringes first, and later allocate rooms to men living near Cambridge...
...Dump. Just why A.T. & T. had dropped first and farthest was easier to explain. Since June, announcement of new financing has almost invariably been followed by a drop in the stock of the company concerned. When Montgomery Ward and American Home Products announced new issues, stockholders went on a selling spree; Monky Ward's stock dropped 21½ points and American Home Products fell 22½ points. A.T. & T. stockholders last week were of the same temper. They looked beyond the $2 billion expansion program (reason for the new financing) to see its effect on A. T. & T. earnings...