Word: nearest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Florentine schoolmate of O'Brien, read of his friend's predicament, wrote a letter, enclosed a check for $1,000, ordered $900 in 2 cent stamps, $100 in 5 cent stamps, saved the day. Shrewd Friend Minturn could, of course, exchange his stamps for cash at the nearest post office...
...worst storms (see p. 16). Escorted out of Genoa by an ocean-going tug, the Leonardo's captain had been instructed by Mussolini to keep in daily radio touch with the mainland, to hug the shore and in event of storm to put in at the nearest port...
...Fayettesville, Ark., Bernie Reed Beck, four, was adjudged the nearest perfect baby in town. Baby Bernie does not live with his parents. Reason: Mrs. Beck is serving a life term in Arkansas State Prison for killing Mr. Beck...
...Financial Policy of Corporations which is so formidable that it may scare off the average undergraduate who does not know that Professor Dewing's lecture delivery is one of the least puzzling in the College. Most undergraduates on the first day of the course look wildly around for the nearest exit, convinced that they have wandered into a philosophy lecture. Bailing his trap with a summary of the corporation from Rome to the present day. Professor Dewing has the class following him, at a distance of several sea leagues, by the third lecture. Then he hops briskly to the present...
...comes nearest to apologizing for this tour de force in introducing his highly colored literary lithograph of Wilson: "It is not some faded whimsicality that induces me to include Wilson ... in these studies, and to end with him, but the conviction that so alone can the structure be roofed. . . . Whereas . . . every other adventurer has fought for himself . . . Wilson adventured for the whole of the human race...