Word: across
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Panama Canal set new records for the year: 7,029 transits, $27,128,889 in tolls; 30,663,006 cargo tons carried. A battalion of engineers will be sent to Nicaragua "before the next dry season" to resurvey and study the proposed canal route across that country...
...Pawnee. Okla., two officers arrested Tom Vernon, alias Tom Brennan. Deputy Sheriff Thomas J. Higgins of Los Angeles, who had stalked Vernon across six states, charged him with wrecking and robbing a Southern Pacific train near Saugus, Cal. last month. Sheriff Gus Romsa of Cheyenne was on hand to charge him also with last week's Wyoming...
...amazing lung power. In the seventeenth century they devoted themselves with the part singing of hymns and endless discussion of theological subtleties in the twentieth they hear a symphony go to the theatre or dine at a roadhouse a hundred miles from Cambridge. For decades they walked across the fields to visit with one of the five or six thousand families settled about Massachusetts Bay, then they rode post coaches to Boston in an hour later they came home from debates across the Charles their feet buried in straw on the floor of a horse car later still in electric...
...Yard has expanded its glorious elms dying of the gypsy moth have given place to red oaks or other trees the ancient wooden fence is replaced by delightful wrought iron and brick. Coming out of the subway one crosses riskily the traffic torrent in "Mass" Avenue turns to look across the hurly burly of what was once a quiet country square enters the Yard. There past a copper beech lies a long rectangle of shaded lawn enclosed by ten or so buildings of all styles simply beauty of ancient Hollis architectural bathos of Weld. Behind University Hall a lovely Hall...
...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 which measure the resistance of a continuous electrical conductor. Great grappling hooks groped for the cables...