Word: nearest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...About noon the fogs cleared, but radio communication with earth was lost. Dipping, the pilot dropped a note to gaping peasants: "Where are we? North or south of the Gulf of Finland? If south, please hold arms aloft; if north, cross arms." The gapers lifted their arms uncrossed. The nearest railway station was that of a village near Riga, in Latvia. That evening, 12 hours behind schedule, the Norge loomed through the dusk and was hauled into a hangar near the Gatchina Palace, outside of Leningrad. Hundreds of Soviet soldiers had to struggle in three feet of snow...
...Fairbanks operators were, however, in constant touch with Wilkins' overland party under Explorer "Sandy" Smith. The latter had been obliged to leave his comrades encamped some 140 miles south of Point Barrow on the Colville River, while he and an aide mushed across the tundra to the nearest settlement. He had run out of food for the dogs. Soon, the encamped ones flashed, the animals would have to be shot. Wilkins, second-in-command, Major Lanphier, left behind in Fairbanks, at once rushed repairs on the damaged Fokker Detroiter to send aid. Meantime he worried and worried about Wilkins...
Sighs of relief can now sweep the literary world, since it is known that Uncle Bim is no longer in danger and that the Widow Zander is no longer in poverty. Let the nearest belfry broadcast the tidings that Uncle Bim retained his money...
Japanese speculators rubbed and rubbed their crinkly parchment-skinned hands. The yen has been mounting, leaping upward. Last week it touched 46.19?, the nearest approach to parity (49.85?) since...
...charge of "rote learning" strikes an actual evil. The growth of universities has outstripped the science of pedagogy. And to combat the wrong, Dr. Penniman and Dr. Kinley invoke opposite methods. The "dynamic education", championed by the Pennsylvania President would impart to the students the inspiration nearest at hand, namely, the current industrial and social crusades, the drama which is being so unsystematically waged throughout the world. To ask the student to take his mental intoxicants from modern turmoil is, however, hurrying his ultimate fate. Allow him first to realize that education is not merely supplementary to life but preparatory...