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...Dunster smashed back and forth in the first half with Kirkland's heavy line stopping their opponents' small backfield at every turn. Johnny Addington, Deacon fullback, was the only real offensive strength Kirkland could produce to compete with George Varn, Dunster halfback, who ran thirty-two yards for the longest run of the game...
...longest uniformly planned road in the U. S., the Pennsylvania Turnpike has no curves to speak of; its almost imperceptible jogs could be taken without hazard at 90 m.p.h. For 70% of its way it is straight as a die; one 13-mile stretch marches as unwaveringly as a Roman road. Its steepest grade...
Down there early one morning last week, while the crump of bombs and report of Flak roared above ground in the R. A. F.'s longest attack of the war, two little future soldiers were brought squalling into the world. Next morning Adolf Hitler tenderly blessed the infants, and declared that for every baby born in his underground hospital during a raid he would be godfather...
...Longest bed discovered in the Cencus of Sleepers was a seven foot, four inch job in the room of James B. "Shorty" Kobak in A entry. Kobak, standing five-foot seven in his crepesoled brogans, planned to chain his prize to a radiator. "I'm not big, but I kick around a lot," he apologized last night...
Last July, Seattle opened its floating bridge, the longest, oddest pontoon bridge in the world. Its four-lane concrete highway, one and a quarter miles long, is the deck of 25 cement pontoons. The bridge actually floats, seven feet deep, in the water. As if the engineers had not had a hard enough job, they had also to include a draw-span, to take care of lake shipping. The draw-span section is made up of two pontoons. One forms a Y, the other floats between its arms, sliding out to close the bridge, slipping in to leave 200 feet...