Word: nearest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...believe there is not less of real democracy at Harvard than at Stanford. It would be almost impossible for Harvard to demonstrate its democracy as Stanford does. Stanford is a small community in itself. It is located about a mile and a half from Palo Alto, the nearest town, and all fraternities and clubs are on the "Campus" and within ten minutes walk of most of the university buildings. At Harvard the students are scattered over a large city. The village lends itself to the democracy and familiarity that are quite impossible in the metropolis. On the other hand...
Exeter won the meet for the tenth time in 14 years, scoring 44 5-12 points against nine by Wakefield High, the nearest competitor...
...collection of business equipment and machinery has been installed in Lawrence Hall on the top floor on the side nearest Memorial Hall under the auspices of the School, and the different kinds of apparatus are now available for use in connection with academic work by students in the school. The collection includes a dictaphone, various kinds of time-recording, clocks, adding machines, typewriters, loose-leaf forms and accounting books, and a Hollerity Tabulating Machine." The rooms are open daily, except Saturday and Sunday between 1.30 and 5.30 o'clock, and are under the charge of L. V. Boyle...
...Government of having all the expenses of the men paid by the Government. The Army Appropriation bill of 1916 included an allowance to cover the expenses of maintaining the military training camps, including paying the expenses of individual men for their transportation to and from the camp nearest their homes, their subsistence in the camp, and uniforms...
...individual oarsman, his work was just as phenomenal. When he was 19 years of age he entered a single scull race in a boat made by himself, which weighed over 80 pounds. Yet he won the race by a distance of more than a half-mile over his nearest competitor. This race marked the beginning of 88 successive victories as an amateur. Then he became a professional, and started a series of 46 contests marred only by seven defeats. An unfortunate sunstroke in May, 1879, ended his competitive career...