Word: nearest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Erin to become a republic overnight. The Republicans are practically deadlocked in the Dail, for the rest of the House is overwhelmingly pro-treaty and a coalition for Mr. de Valera on the Republican issue is impossible. Thomas Johnston made that much plain last week, and his party is nearest in political complexion to the de Valera-ites...
...jack" or to rest as near it as possible. Following players, up to the number of four, tried also to hit the jack, or to knock opponents' bowls into the ditch which surrounds the green. At the end of a round, the side which had bowl or bowls nearest the jack was counted winner...
...City. Few towns have greater wealth of story than Salzburg. There, Marcus Aurelius, soldier, established Roman headquarters among the Teuton tribes and brooded on philosophy. There Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born to music. There the ecclesiastical princes came nearest to realizing the medieval dream of an all-powerful church and a beautiful state...
...more or less injured. Naturally, being a physician, usually known to someone in the attending group, frequently a policeman, I am asked to give assistance. Over and over again I have treated and bandaged a victim, carried him off in my car, or had him conveyed to the nearest hospital. I have attended at least eight such cases in the past three months. I make my living from my work and am not a professional philanthropist. Therefore my services should be paid for. Yet not one of the eight whom I have attended has responded to my request...
Since Canberra, the new Federal Capital of Australia (TIME, April 18), is connected with the nearest railway only by a 40-mile bus line, and lies some 300 miles from Melbourne, the plane put into service by Prime Minister Bruce seemed a "necessary luxury." It will enable him to finish breakfast at 8 a. m. in Melbourne and still reach his desk in Canberra in time for an only slightly late morning's work...