Word: nearest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These accomplishments were the nearest approach yet to the great dream of free world trade, long plugged by Cotton Millionaire Will Clayton, who resigned last month as Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. But despite the Geneva agreements, Will Clayton's dream was still little more than a dream...
Avenue tailor. Most of all he likes to wear outlandish hats. His current favorite: a Swiss yodeler's hat. Says Jimmy: "It keeps people talking." Unlike most of today's early-to-bed pros, in the evenings Demaret usually heads for the nearest night club-to hobnob with a bandleader and sing a song with the band. Like golf's great showman of the 1920s, Walter Hagen, he never lets golf interfere with...
After nightfall, Dr. Sasaki turns on the lights. The fish, which are very fond of light, think it's a party-or maybe a whole series of parties. They gather in swarms, cavorting around each light. When enough fish have gathered, Dr. Sasaki turns off the light nearest shore...
Then, he charged, the cop dragged him out of the car, took him to the nearest station (leaving his wife sitting in the car), belted him around the head, broke his glasses, and had him heaved, bleeding, into the cooler...
...stayed to become an authority on criminal law, Principal of B.N.C. (Brasenose College) and one of Oxford's better hosts. This week, at 63, he became Vice Chancellor, the nearest Oxford equivalent to a U.S. university president (the Chancellorship of Oxford, at present held by the Earl of Halifax, is strictly honorary...