Word: nearest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fire had started when an ill-greased axle grew hot and hotter, began to spew forth sparks, and finally set the wooden sleeping car afire. Flames danced in the corridor, awakened the attendant. With a bound he leaped for the nearest stop-signal cord, found it already useless, burned through...
...garden in question was located in the thick of African jungles, overlooking a beautiful lake, three weeks by motor from the nearest town, the capital of Kenya. Here dwelt for nearly four years Hunter-Photographer Martin Johnson & wife, a pet monkey, a Boer mechanic, a native maid for Mrs. Johnson, nearly 200 native servants and an incredible number of supplies necessary for the making of good pictures, moving and still. Here meandered, day and night, elephants, "the good natured (until roused) bourgeois of the forest," the always bad-humored rhinos, the stupid hippopotami, dainty Abyssinian bushbucks and their antelope...
Smith not only received the greatest number of total votes, but also obtained twice as many votes for first place as Hoover, his nearest rival. Dawes received four firsts, while Reed, Lowden, and Norris got one each. Curtis, Walsh, and Ritchie got no first places...
...National Horseshoe Pitchers Association is in Akron, Ohio. A horseshoe pitcher uses two horseshoes, each weighing 2½ Ibs. He tosses them at an iron stake 40 ft. away, protruding 8 in. above a bed of potters clay. Then his opponent does likewise. The shoe that lands nearest the stake scores 1 point; a ringer 3 points; a double ringer 6 points. The first player to score 50 points wins the game. In championship matches, calipers and a straight edge are used to determine accurately which horseshoe is nearest the stake. But in casual bouts a player often shouts...
...Edipus, Stravinsky holds, is his nearest approach to pure music, the expression of his most complete emancipation from "story" music. But like most men who set formulas for themselves, he has overlooked the divine spark within himself, the spark that made the Sophoclean drama the greatest of human tragedies. In spite of himself, Stravinsky's (Edipus music is dramatic, tragedy-telling, alarming, dreadsome-in short, as exciting as any catastrophe, as comprehensible as any of the passions by which Fate works its will upon the simple soul...