Word: nearest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longer a race (his nearest foe was some 40 yds. in the rear), but a battle against the stop watch. Dodds passed the three-quarter mark in 3:03.9, just about what he'd planned. Then, instead of running down, 29-year-old Dodds began to go even faster. His time for the Wanamaker Mile-4:05.3-broke his own world's indoor mile record by more than a second. As usual, he took only part of the credit: "I always do my best trusting in the Lord. I feel as if He's with...
Last week Louisiana went to the polls and cast a record primary vote which gave Earl Long a better than 100,000 margin over his nearest rival, "Sad" Sam Jones. Ex-Governor Jones had stood on the more prosaic platform of "good government...
...regional petroleum office in the Midlands reported a religious revival, with thousands wanting gas to drive to churches more than two miles from their homes. Many a motorist felt new pangs of rheumatism, sciatica, or old war wounds which made it quite impossible for him to walk to the nearest...
...have tried these gustatory and other physical contortions and don't feel up to a second session can always offer themselves up to the nearest resort and lead a normal life...
...choice of Venezuela's men & women for president of the republic was Novelist Rómulo Gallegos, a founder in 1941 of Acción Democrática, which has controlled the government since the swift revolution of 1945. His victory over his nearest rival, 31-year-old Rafael Caldera, candidate of the conservative COPEI (Committee for Independent Political Organization), had been forecast from the start...