Word: nearest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...things which makes Massachusetts a doubtful State this year is Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Sacco-Vanzetti fame. His is the only workable Republican machine in the State. He is the nearest the State comes to having a G. O. P. boss. He wanted the nomination for the Vice-Presidency for himself and since he did not get it, he has been cool, in a quiet way, toward the Nominee with whom he wanted...
...when a half-breed steals both abductor's and abductee's horses in the desert. Thanks to Judith's habit of daily ablution, the water supply at that juncture amounts to half-a-canteen-full. When abductor, abductee and a young would-be rescuer reach the nearest water-hole, following a 20-mile drag over the hot sands, they find the water-hole has gone...
...essential for exhibitors to coordinate their buying power. They are nearest the public. They are the outlet of the industry. And they haven't a word to say-not one word-as to how it shall...
...came up from Colorado and began to deepen the Butte pits. William A. Clark learned his trade in a quartz mine and lost his savings in a gold mine. In Butte, he dug for copper. Gold miners, seeing his wagons start out on their 400-mile trek to the nearest railroad at Corinne, Utah, laughed aloud. "There go Clark's rocks," they jeered. And they were 98.37% right. Only 1.63% of the gray copper ore can be reduced to valuable metal. But it was enough to build the little man a $100,000,000 fortune...
...lands, Antarctica is coldest, windiest, most mountainous, most inaccessible. It is almost entirely unmapped. The nearest human habitation is over 1,000 miles distant...