Word: nearer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recently, however, the Department of Commerce announced plans to publish a new small table. This move shows that the government is actually interested in the analysis, and Leontief's predictions of wider U. S. government use in the future seem nearer fulfillment...
...death was typical of his gentle nature. After he was shot by an anarchist named Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y., his first thought was of his wife: "Be careful how you tell her." He died eight days later, whispering to his wife: "Nearer, my God, to thee." It was Sept. 14, 1901; McKinley was leaving a violent century that he could not have understood, and that could not be very kind to him in retrospect. At the time, his mourners did not recall his failures but remembered his "firm, unquestioning faith; his kindly, frock-coated...
...other side froze and upset the delicate mechanism inside. Then, having gone around the moon, Lunik swung back toward the earth, began to transmit the pictures. A slow system was used when Lunik was still at a great distance from the earth, a faster system when it came nearer and its signals were easier to receive. The transmission was done by a sort of TV camera that scanned the pictures electronically, line by line, and translated their varying shades of brightness into varying radio signals. The number of lines could be changed to give different degrees of definition. The maximum...
...wastrel is again James Tyrone, the elder brother who haunted his way through Long Day's Journey into Night: now, he is measurably nearer to the grave which is his best hope. The slut (this time paradoxically endowed with a strange secret of virginity) is a huge, slatternly girl, both proud and ashamed of her physical bulk and power...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4--A Mercury space capsule was hurled 35,000 feet high today by a Little Joe rocket, moving America open step nearer getting a man into space...