Word: nearest
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...nearest example to a test case occured when Hal Chase gave the Chicago White Sox 10 days notice before jumping to the Buffalo Club of the short-lived Federal League about 30 years ago. Buffalo courts refused to issue an injunction against...
Well, obviously, we have a morgueful of material on those subjects, but it would take a boxcar to deliver it to our hungry reader. The best we could do in his case was explain how to go about using the nearest public library...
...part of Russia's war of nerves on Turkey? In 1940 Zhukov led the troops that took over Bessarabia and northern Bukovina from Rumania. Odessa is the military district nearest the Dardanelles...
Archangel itself is a good old-fashioned Western-frontier town in spite of its 300 years. You have only to look down the nearest side street to see a first-class fight at any hour of the day or night. Men, women & children are likely to relieve themselves on any street-except the main street. The streets and roads are so bad that when anyone travels any distance in and around Archangel in a car, it is news and is reported as such. Pravda Severa, published in Archangel, carried an item about a doughty citizen who drove for six versts...
...opponents tried to brush him off as a "junior G-man," got sidetracked in feuds of their own. When election day came, Michigan voters swept him into the nomination with a 50,000 lead over his nearest rival. Their 3-to-1 majority over Democrats voting the same day made Kim Sigler a good bet to beat the Democrats' former Governor Murray D. Van Wagoner to the state house in the fall...