Word: nearest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born John McNiven now lives in Yellowknife, on the desolate northern shore of Great Slave Lake, center of the new gold rush (TIME, May 13). As the only municipality in the sprawling empire, Yellowknife presented the council last week with unaccustomed problems. For instance: though 420 miles from the nearest railhead and 450 from a highway, Yellowknife has a flourishing taxicab business, carrying passengers between town, airport and mines. The local administration wanted the right to regulate the cab business. The council said yes. It also gave the boomtown authorities power to deliver water (there is no plumbing), to dispose...
Balloting in the Houses was heavy, stated Axt, as close to 90 percent of the residents cast votes in almost every House. This weight of voting was partly responsible for the wide margins of victory, each winner finishing 30 to 40 votes ahead of his nearest competitor...
...Ford went to bed at nine in a cold bedroom. At 11:15 Clara Ford heard her husband's voice. She got him a drink of water. She roused the chauffeur and sent him off to the nearest telephone to call Dr. John Mateer of the Ford Hospital, which the old man had endowed. But before Dr. Mateer arrived a cerebral hemorrhage had done its work. In the cold, hushed room, Henry Ford, aged 83, had died by the light of old-fashioned kerosene lamps and flickering candles...
...over for Poland's ludzie lesni (forest people). Last week hundreds of men and boys, singly and in straggling groups, came out of the woods, trudged to the nearest police station and surrendered their arms and themselves. Many had been underground since Poland's defeat in 1939. They had fought the Germans, the Russians and the postwar Polish Government they hated...
...best of these jingles are such a neat blend of humor, whimsey and corn that they seemed to come from the pen of an old master. Not so. The nearest thing in Burma-Vita to an old master is the man who started them, and the company as well-Allan Gilbert Odell, 42, the athletic vice president and sales manager of the company. He devoted so much of his youth to basketball and football that he acquired a thorough interest in liniments. By the time he graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1925, he decided to produce and market...