Word: mile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went into the French navy, as a doctor. Then he was posted with French Colonial troops in Indo-China, where he founded the Pasteur Institute of Saïgon. Later he was to found an anti-tuberculosis dispensary at Lille, in honor of Pierre Paul Émile Roux, present director of the Pasteur Institute of Paris (in which Dr. Calmette is the senior professor of microbiology and assistant director) and to become director of the Pasteur Institute at Lille...
...great swoop of water slapped against the shore. It fell back, slapped up again and again. Rent, twisted, smashed, into flotsam went wharves, stores, homes, people. Devastation: more than a score killed and drowned; hundreds maimed and mauled; 500 homes, 100 fishing boats and 26 schooners smashed; 70 miles of coast stripped of wharves and fishing gear. At sea the quake shook ships. Nine of the 21 cables across the North Atlantic tore apart. Cable repair boats, always waiting for trouble, sped from ports to a point about 900 miles northeast of Manhattan. The breaks were found by exact instruments...
Wednesday night: Mile. Bourrat (Claude Anet...
...greatest problem confronting Coach Haines is the development of a new University four-mile stroke to fill the vacancy caused by the graduation of James Lawrence, Jr '29. The out standing candidates are P. H. Watts '31, J.E. Lawrence '32, S. W. Swaim '32, and R. W. Pearson '31. Watts rowed two in his freshman eight and last year stroked the first crew against Navy and Tenn and the jayvees against Yale Lawrence stroked the combination crew two years ago. Swaim was stroke and captain of his Freshman crew and last year stroked the University against Tech and Cornell...
...Last week the I. C. C. authorized the reopening of the 17½-mile Hill City Railway. Armour and Co. recently sold it to the citizens of Hill City, Minn., for a bargain price...