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...aluminum band around its leg. In September 1929, the same tern, still banded, was seen and examined off the southern tip of Africa, in the Indian Ocean, 9,000 mi. from Labrador. This was accepted by the Northeastern Bird-Banding Association meeting in Boston fortnight ago, as the longest migration ever proved to have been made by a bird. The previous record was held by an arctic tern which had flown from Turneuik Bay in southern Labrador to Margate, Natal, South Africa, some 8,000 miles...
...three longest railroad tunnels in the U.S. are: 1) the new Cascade tunnel in Washington on the Great Northern (7.79 miles); 2) Moffat tunnel (6.11 miles); 3) Hoosac tunnel in Massachusetts on the Boston & Maine (4.38) miles...
...importance of this document." said Osservatore with bitter sarcasm, "has evidently escaped the editors . . . though it was the longest and one of the most important encyclicals ever issued by the Holy Father. . . . "Some newspapers of Rome published only a few lines. Others ignored the encyclical entirely. Only one gave it as much as half a column-and this when treating of the words of the Bishop of Rome...
...York Times, only U. S. newsservice to carry the mammoth encyclical in toto, proudly announced that this was the longest single radio message ever transmitted from Italy (some 12.000 words), required 14½ hours of dot-and-dash work due to "unfavorable conditions," whereas "under favorable conditions an average of 1,000 words per hour can be maintained...
Following the dimensions of the country, the model would be 2,807 feet at its longest point east and west, representing the distance between West Quoddy Head, near Eastport, Maine, to a point due west on the Pacific Ocean. The longest north-south dimension of the model would be 1,598 feet, representing the distance from the southernmost point in Texas to a point due north to the 49th parallel...