Word: nearer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This Gargantuan measure now having been passed, ''Winnie" Churchill last week abruptly returned to the Baldwin fold, pledged ''whole hearted" support to the Government and strove to bandage his self-inflicted political wounds by the clarion announcement: "Dangers larger and nearer than Indian dangers gather on our path. . . . We have to play our part...
Middlemen Cerf, Klopfer and Scherman frequently profess their love of literature but they are no fools. They saw that Story was getting no nearer to standing on its own financial bottom. Last week, in announcing its sale to Dr. Simon, they declared: "Story has grown out of the class where it can any longer be treated as a part-time interest." Mildly Editor Whit Burnett mentioned that the old owners had not given him enough money to expand the way he wanted...
...Frank Schlesinger of Yale Observatory, whose fame is associated with parallax. Earth's annual orbit around the Sun is 186,000,000 miles across; therefore the direction of stars as observed from Earth on opposite sides of that orbit changes slightly. This change is called parallax. Even the nearer stars are so far off that their parallax is extremely small, and for remote stars it is not discernible at all. Nevertheless since the amount of apparent displacement depends on how far away the star is, parallax furnished the first dependable clue to stellar distances. Beginning in 1903, Frank Schlesinger...
...Davis Tuttle, perceptive, philosophical columnist of the Caldwell Record of Lenoir, N. C., for what Country Home considered "the grandest piece of individual thinking and writing we have come upon for years": "Last night I thought I heard a pack of foxhounds running, but as the sound came nearer I realized it was a flock of wild geese flying out of the north...
...lurks in Paris, meanwhile slipped warning letters into Yugoslavia by secret courier. They feared that the Regent of Yugoslavia, Prince Paul, has developed Nazi leanings and chose M. Stoyadinovitch to be Premier for the purpose of shifting Yugoslavian policy a few points away from Paris and several points nearer Berlin. "Beware!" warned Rebel Pribitchevitch. "The main condition imposed by Germany for co-operation would be Yugoslav acceptance of Austro-German union, which would make Germany our country's neighbor. Germany would obtain hegemony in Central Europe and the Balkans and only a crazy man could believe that Germany would...