Word: nearer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vacillating Peasants. A little past noon we set off, walking in an extended column down the middle of the street. It was less than a mile to the palace. The nearer we approached, the more troops we encountered. Each carried a rille, bristled with grenades, was festooned with cartridge belts. Passers-by stopped as we went past, but seldom spoke. After staring at us with sympathetic eyes, they hurried on their way. As we marched, I conferred with V. M. Chernov, one of the SR party leaders...
...English, and more than 12,000 in physical education. Many attempts to raise the level of science teaching are in progress. New York City has instituted a Bureau of Science and Mathematics to coordinate the curriculum in the public schools, and to try to bring standards nearer those of the Bronx High School of Science. A national education foundation has engaged Oscar-winning Frank Capra to direct some films dramatizing the opportunities in science...
Criticism of Benson has reached its peak in the last few months, and can only be expected to increase as the '58 elections draw nearer. Despite the coalition of cattlemen, businessmen, and the American Farm Bureau Federation being formed to save Benson, it is likely that Benson will choose to resign in February...
...This call to learn from the East," says Hocking, "will be taking us nearer to the spirit of an earlier Christianity! There is no stronger endorsement of the lasting significance of the message emanating from Galilee than the fact that in moving forward past modernity we arrive at a better comprehension of its changeless demands...
...large, empty cylinder with a lot of air resistance for its weight, so the thin air at orbit level takes more energy from it. But as the carrier loses energy to the air, it does not lose speed. It spirals down to a lower orbit and speeds up. The nearer an orbiting body is to the earth, the faster it must move. The earth's natural moon, for instance, moves on its distant orbit (240,000 miles from the earth) at only 2,355.2 m.p.h., which is one-seventh of low-flying Sputnik's speed...