Word: nearer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fatherland careening into the most ominous crisis of faith since the Russian Revolution, Adolf Hitler's delirious Jew-baiting friend Julius Streicher roared at Nürnberg: "Every Catholic priest convicted of immorality must be beheaded! Since I no longer belong to the Church I am much nearer...
...used to discharge gas through the bottom of the ship at the catwalk. Today it is done through ventilating shafts at the top of the ship. In earlier days the exhausts were located nearer to the central corridor than now, yet we never had any ignition then. Under those conditions we have valved gas hundreds of times without fire...
...rearming years on the growth of profits from "all persons and firms engaged in industry, trade, or business of any kind" making an annual profit in excess of $10,000. This new tax, it is estimated, will bring in only $10,000,000 in the current year but nearer $125,000,000 next year...
...last week construction on the Exposition was so delayed that the French Government frankly admitted that it could not possibly open May 1, the date originally set, but would now open on May 17. Premier Blum's political enemies received this news skeptically, felt that July was nearer the mark...
...then waited until the daughter came home at 3 a.m. Charles Robinson who lived on the top floor reported, "As I came up the steps leading to the Gedeons' floor [at 2:10 a.m.] I noticed the door of their flat was half open. As I came nearer it closed-slowly and very quietly. But whoever was behind it kept out of sight. It looked as though the person inside had been waiting for someone...