Word: nearest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...milers, Gil Dodds, made his comeback try at the twomile. Rounding the last turn in the 22nd lap at Madison Square Garden, he lurched wildly off the boards for a dozen yards (a technical foul), got back on the track and staggered across the finish 85 yards before his nearest foe. The officials ignored his miscue..His time...
...style; the town was not big enough to hold both him and Arthur Judson. "You cannot play music with one ear on the box office," says Rodzinski. And the box office means Judson. He is not only the man behind the Philharmonic, but the man who conies nearest to controlling classical music in the U.S. The 30-man Philharmonic board, a collection of socialites, Wall Streeters, amateurs of the arts and a few musicians, stand greatly in awe of Judson. They respect his judgments; and they have bought and paid for them. And Arthur Judson would not let Rodzinski...
...third quarter of his race, Dodds fell two seconds short of his planned time, but still nobody was near him. His old rival, Leslie MacMitchell, had won a 4:17.2 mile the night before and was obviously overtired. Dodds broke the tape 35 yards in front of the nearest man, New York A. C.'s Tommy Quinn. Dodds's time - 4:09.1 - was the fastest indoor mile Boston had ever seen. The crowd cheered lustily for five minutes...
...nearest (though not very near) thing to a fine artist in the medium of U.S. radio is Norman Corwin. Few dramatists reach so wide an audience-a fact that last February helped him win the first Wendell Willkie One World Award: a round-the-world trip designed to dramatize, as did Willkie's, the adjacence of everywhere...
...Nearest and most probable source of the stone (a "cyclopean" basalt naturally divided into columns as it cooled from molten lava) is 15 miles away by sea. The heavy masses must have been ferried across to Nanmatol on rafts or dugouts, and horsed into position by main force and primitive awkwardness...