Word: nearest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lunch time. But 135-lb. little Ben Hogan, a man with steel in his wrists and ice in his veins, steadied down to win going away, 6 and 4. The $3,500 prize made Ben's season earnings $33,377, and put him $12,000 ahead of his nearest rival-Nelson...
...borrow a few faculty members from St. John's, persuade some recent St. Johnnies to try their hand at teaching, and raid established schools to "liberate oppressed minorities" who believe in the St. John's way. A teaching task-force from "College X" will invade the nearest city, bring the great books to grownups who are too old or too busy to go to college...
There had been lawsuits aplenty about lands under water, and more than 50 cases had gone to the Supreme Court. But the U.S. Government was not a party to any of them, and the nearest approach to a mineral-rights case was one involving Florida sponge-fishers. There was not much money in sponges, and at that time (1912) the U.S. was getting along on very little...
...miles away aboard the press ship Appalachian, watchers saw the huge area of Bikini lagoon rise with lightning-like speed and in boiling violence. LSM 60 vanished in the twinkling of an eye. The 26,100-ton battleship Arkansas (the oldest surviving P.S. dreadnaught, dating from 1910), was next nearest the detonation point. She flopped over on her port side and was immediately swallowed...
King in a Palace. The preaching becomes a harangue only at the end. For the rest, there is a long, slow-moving narrative, often vivid, of daily life at Summerhouses farm. The nearest town is a five-hour trip by packhorse. The nearest neighbor lives out of sight, over a ridge...