Word: area
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year U. S. commercial planes flew close to 6,000,000 miles, German planes about 5,750,000. This year U. S. planes will have flown nearly 12,000,000 miles. Because the area is 20 times as large as Germany's, there is vaster opportunity for the expansion of the U. S. industry...
Altogether awesome and holy is the small area circumferenced by the ruins of King Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem. A Mohammedan can enter and behold the golden urn in which repose two hairs from the beard of the True Prophet. A Christian may adore the stone on which Jesus found miraculously inscribed, the name of his Father In Heaven ("Shem"), by pronouncing which he worked miracles. Jews can see the place where Abraham was stayed by the Angel's hand from offering up Isaac. Nearby is the Coffin of Mohammed, adorned with 17 golden nails. It is written...
...Cadets' encampment on the Common is an area of five hundred feet square, located between the Great Elm and the Old Mall...
...arrives. And he is less than the dust of the area. He is fed, clothed, inspected as to teeth and hoofs exactly as a horse would be. He must stand at attention for all officers. Upper classmen are all Mr. So-and-so to him. He cannot speak to them without being spoken to, he pulls his chin back and elevates his chest by orders, and gradually it dawns on him that he is not appreciated. That the hero of Podunk is completely obscured at West Point! And in him, perhaps, is born the realization that he is important only...
...view that Prohibition has been bad for young people, with quotations from pastors and university presidents. Then he flayed "the record," with special reference to G. O. P. enforcement methods in his own New York as exposed by Chester P. Mills, onetime Federal enforcement officer for the Manhattan area. "Prohibition ... the new political pork barrel...