farthermost

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All we can really say is that if the universe is 10 billion years old, then light from the farthermost quasars has been on the way to us for more than 8 billion years.

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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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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.

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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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Some were monks who had come long distances, perhaps from farthermost Tibet, making the great pilgrimage to "gain merit" for themselves and for their monastery.

From A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia by Kendall, Elizabeth Kimball