Word: nearer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...volume with only a fractional gain. Not a healthy condition from a bullish standpoint. We would suggest that the substantial profits which have accrued in the past three weeks be accepted and a strategic retreat be made to the sidelines, awaiting a chance to fill the market basket again nearer the 95 level...
Sequel to Pity Is Not Enough (TIME, May 29, 1933), The Executioner Waits carries nearer to completion Author Herbst's big portrait of the U. S. from post-Civil War times to the present, takes the Trexler family fortunes from 1918 to 1929. By now the Trexlers are far dispersed from their Pennsylvania homestead: to California, Iowa, New Jersey, Washington. Only one of them has gone up in the world, and for him, as for his capitalist brothers, Author Herbst implies, "the executioner waits." Of the Trexler descendants who are economically on the down grade, most do what they...
...Commander Hayes of the American Legion can hope to supply a cure for our troubles and still cling to the methods of a hundred and fifty years ago. The most alarming thing is that in spite of the efforts of the last two years we are really no nearer the solution of our problems than before. Perhaps we should try a new method of attack...
...little brown snake in a park, being kept after school because he had laughed at the teacher, a bum who was still too dignified to sell dirty postcards. At times he seems as inept an introspective fumbler as Sherwood Anderson at his silliest, but at others he gets nearer the gist of the matter than Anderson at his most inspired. Though Saroyan has a contempt for cleverness, literariness, his searching simplicity sometimes accomplishes cleverness' own job. Saroyan sometimes uses the impressionistic patter of his day, but plain readers will feel themselves most directly addressed in such straight words...
Banners and flags floated in the offshore breeze from the walls of the buildings which formed its University. Beyond, and nearer the sea, lay a brown-stone edifice handsome in its simplicity, dedicated to the Christian Church. Beside this building a most peculiar structure leaned. Round in shape, and encircled with columns, it was the leaning belfry that had brought more fame to Pisa than its prowess as a seaport or the renown of its University. About the base of this leaning tower a gathering of men had formed, who, straining their eyes, were gazing toward the topmost...