Word: nearer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...played nearer the net at times and blocked Tallant's swift place well, but he lost many points by lobbing to Tallant on return of service. Trllant won the fourth set easily, Lee gaining more than thirty but once, and that a deuce game...
...attempted to sweep away all the effects of the Revolution, they were eventually obliged to establish a government even freer than Napoleon's They could not restore a trace of the social inequalities, The new government established in 1830 was no contradiction of the Revolutionary principles but a step nearer a republic than the reactionary Bourbonism had been. It proved, however, impossible for the new king to follow the movement toward liberty, and he was driven from his throne. The government of Napoleon III again obtamed the support of the nation by promising to recognize the principles...
...held last evening in the rooms of Messrs. Ropes and Richards. The executive committee reported a constitution, which was adopted with some slight alterations and additions. After the transaction of some other business, considerable time was given to the discussion of means to bring the Academy and the University nearer to each other. At the close of the business meeting, light refreshments were served and the rest of the evening passed in a social way by the members...
Views of many other churches and statues were also shown, giving altogether a most clear and satisfactory idea of the city. Pisa is situated on the Arno nearer the sea. The city is noted for a group of buildings surrounding the Duomo, or cathedral, which dates from the eleventh century. In this church is the identical lamp from whose movements Galileo deduced the laws of the pendulum. The baptistry is a very handsome building, but the chief interest centers in the well known "Leaning Tower," from whose summit Galileo made his experiments on falling bodies. The attitude of this tower...
...definite object is in view, and a certain amount of hard work must be done. The uncertainty in regard to the cost of transportation renders it impossible to state exactly the cost per man of the trip. It will, however, not exceed $400, and probably will be nearer $300. The State government will give guns, blankets and saddles to those who wish them, and the National government has given Professor Scott a letter which enables him to buy provisions at a reduced rate from any army post near which the expedition may be encamped...