Word: nearest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...north coast of Alaska, June 20 or shortly after for an airplane flight across the North Pole to Spitzbergen. In order to notify watchers and emergency rescue parties in Spitzbergen the news of his departure will be flashed thither by radio from Noorvik, on the west coast, the nearest transmitting station to Wainwright. Word will be carried over the intervening 400 miles by a chain of giant bonfires every fifteen miles, each tended by a team of Eskimos who will light the fire when they see the preceding beacon, and run on between stations to make sure the signal...
...whole history of the vision of those who began the reindeer industry in Alaska shows that they only erred in having no idea as to its possibilities. Labrador is the nearest port of America to Europe. It is 1600 miles distant from Ireland. Its coast is easy of approach in the summer, there being no sand banks, and all its innumerable harbors having deep water. Sir William MacGreggor and I collected speciments of its flora and sent them to Kew, England, for a report on their ability to support reindeer; the report was absolutely favorable. Everyone who knows Labrador, knows...
...eliminate some of the trivial reasons that often decide a student's choice. It will no longer be necessary for the Freshman to decide on Chemistry merely because be likes to potter about in he laboratory, on Mathematics because it has no Divisionals, or on English because it seems nearest home. The articles will try to give the reader an authentic idea of the field for which he is best fitted. As an Oriental might say. "The venders of the fruits of knowledge display their wares. Let each choose carefully, using both his eyes...
Tripling the score of its nearest competitor, winning seven out of eight first places, and making a clean sweep in the shop-put and 45-yard low hurdles, the Freshman track team last Saturday swamped two visiting Boston schools in the first meet of the season with a final score of 51 points. English High School registered five points in the 1000-yard run, won by McKillock, and captured enough second and third places to bring her total up to 17, while Boston Latin School took second in the 600 and last in the relay race for a score...
...port of Boston, which is broad, "deep chested", protected, and well furnished with excellent docking facilities; and what is still more in its favor from the point of view of the steamship companies, it is some three hundred miles, one day, nearer Europe than is New York, the nearest of the other ports. The steamship companies are glad to dock at Boston and would do so if it were not for the fact that they find no goods on the Boston wharves waiting for export. No ship can be expected to bring cargoes in to port and depart with...