Word: nearer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lifeguard on the prow of the nearer launch dove as the body appeared, floating head down in the water like a rug over a clothesline. Rescued and aboard the launch the dare-devil diver regained consciousness, complained of chills. Then he discovered that his back was broken, his body paralyzed from the waist down. With him in the boat were his wife, his mother, the lifeguard, and reporters and photographers from the San Francisco Examiner. There was no doctor. Bad enough-but then the launch's engine refused to start...
...Francisco), is a reproduction of the sinking of the Titanic. The best shot in the picture-the horrible apparition of the fatal berg through the fog-is done with glass on a split screen. The collision itself is a miniature. The hysteria at the lifeboats, the singing of Nearer, My God, To Thee were made on a life-scale ship...
...there? The answer is as short as to me it was weighty; being the only male in his line, and knowing (although it would have been submitted to) that it would have proved a heart-rending stroke to have him at that distance, I was disposed to try a nearer seminary of good repute, which, for some cause or combination of causes, has not, after the experiment of a year, been found to answer the end that it was contemplated...
...last week only two of those 14 months were left. War seemed no nearer than it had a year ago, but it was still near enough, and popular determination to stay out of it was firmer than ever. Up for debate in the Senate came a bill, introduced by Foreign Relations Chairman Key Pittman of Nevada, to make present safeguards permanent. To keep U. S. ships from being sunk, U. S.-owned goods from being seized or destroyed, Senator Pittman further proposed to put all wartime trade with belligerents on a cash & carry basis. As soon as the President proclaimed...
...powerful Varsity swimming team will move one step nearer crucial with the Elis when they are favored to swamp the Navy at Annapolis tonight. Harvard, tied with Yale, Is in the League lead with an undefeated team, while the sallors are in last place and can't boast of a single win over an E.I.S.L. opponent. They are not likely to start tonight for the Crimson team has a wealth of material, and only the Yale bugaboo stands between them and the championship...