farthermost

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While strict interpretation of Hubble's law would place the farthermost quasars more than 8 billion light-years from the earth, Schmidt refuses to assign a specific distance for any beyond the closest: 3C 273.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous and romantic."

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While his Secretary of State Pacelli, his Dr. Aminta Milan! and the others stood silent, his Holiness Pope Pius XI began speaking to the farthermost corners of the earth.

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By week's end the alarm had spread to the farthermost corners of the Soviet empire.

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“The best place, I should think, would be at the farthermost end of the point, where I got the boat through the reef—the water is deep there close to the rocks.”

From Masterman Ready The Wreck of the "Pacific" by Marryat, Frederick