farthermost

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When the light we see today left the farthermost quasars, the earth and the solar system had not yet been born.

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Indeed, using the red shift from some quasars as a yardstick indicates that they could be 10 billion or more light-years away�making them the farthermost objects ever observed in the heavens by astronomers.

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Under the eaves of Central Asia's towering Hindu Kush Mountains lie the farthermost outposts of the British Raj's power in India, in the Northwest Frontier Province.

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"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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Re Dr. Deming's question as to the farthermost northern pecans I said Charles City, Iowa.

From Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the sixth annual meeting Rochester, New York, September 1 and 2, 1915 by Northern Nut Growers Association