Word: nearer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parallax is the apparent motion of a star caused by the earth's revolution around the sun. The nearer the star, the larger the apparent motion...
Nearly as incredible as the legend of Robin Hood himself, the picaresque story of Errol Thomson Flynn's 29 years nevertheless boils clown to this-that his mettle has come nearer the heat of genuine adventure than any other of cinema's celluloid heroes. Of the same stout Cumberland strain that produced famous Bounty Mutineer Fletcher Christian, Errol is the son of Zoologist Theodore Thomson Flynn, of Queen's University, Belfast. As a child in Ireland he played with Fletcher Christian's sword, knew his 18th-Century cousin's renown from yellowed family documents...
Science's conquest of cancer is one step nearer success today because Louis F. Fieser '25, professor of Chemistry, has formulated a more specific definition than research workers have ever had before of the essential structural peculiarities of the chemicals that produce...
...least two other themes-his physical strength and his poetic talent. His muscle he traces to his pioneer ancestors, all over six feet, feudists, boozers, moonshiners, hard workers, preachers. Biggest and lustiest of these was Grandfather Mitch Stuart, who fought for the North because the Union recruiting station was nearer, who narrowly escaped hanging by his own men for killing a fellow soldier, fathered 19 children by two wives, died violently by ambush when he was past 80. As an old man, Grandpa Stuart scandalized a spiritualist meeting by yelling: "Come out, all you dead babies and have a drink...
...France entered Spain up to this week, but some 6,000 Leftist soldiers fled over the mountainous Pyrenees frontier into France, and of these some 4,000 were promptly shipped by the French back by rail to Loyalist territory. From Barcelona the U. S. diplomatic mission moved 20 miles nearer France on the coast. Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin called for 100,000 fresh volunteers for the People's Army, and Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto no longer spoke of victory but tried to persuade the French that unless they sent help the methodical advance of Generalissimo Francisco Franco might...