Word: farthest
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Louie's was a primary supplier of alcoholic beverages and late night snacks for students living in Dunster and Mather, the two river houses farthest from the Square...
Silence--followed by laughter as the crowded car of tourists and press hounds grinned at each other and began to compare notes on who had travelled the farthest to join in the festivities...
Russia's rulers have been so obsessed with the geography factor that they developed the most centralized system of control in human history. In reality, the notion that whatever Moscow dictated would automatically be done throughout the farthest reaches of the empire was a carefully fostered illusion. The Potemkin village was the inspired invention of a royal favorite seeking to delude Catherine the Great about the conditions of life in the hinterlands. During the Soviet era, local apparatchiks flooded Moscow with so many meaningless statistics that no one to this day knows the real state of the Russian economy...
Nevertheless, some of Bellows' finest paintings were set on an island at the farthest possible remove from Manhattan: Monhegan, on the Maine coast, where his idol Winslow Homer had also painted. Though born and raised in Ohio, Bellows had coastal roots -- his grandfather was a whaler at Montauk on the eastern tip of New York's Long Island -- and the Atlantic was as fundamental a source of imaginative nourishment to him as it had been to Melville or Whitman. "We two and the great sea," he wrote to his wife in a moment of romantic exaltation, "and the mighty rocks...
...conquest. In 711 a mixed force of Arabs and Berbers under the command of Musa ibn Nusayr crossed the sea and smashed through the patchy Visigothic resistance; within 50 years most of Spain, except for the pockets of Castile and Catalonia in the north, had become al-Andalus, the farthest western expansion of a vast Muslim empire run by the Abbasid dynasty from Baghdad...