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...experiment in the naive taxi rates in Boston, a system which has its basis on the theories that every movement of the meter has a meaning all its own, that cobblestones and hills increase the distance in dollars and lessen the distance in space, and that the longest way round is the shortest way home. for the pedestrian--for who is not? there is always the river. Follow the river, says the oldest settler, and one can't go wrong. Such may be the case but neither can one arrive at any definitely placed objective...
...years passed she flew far and often. Her longest ride was from Egypt to France; her most widely advertised, a routine flight from London to Paris on which the plane, forced down, was reported missing for two days. She had also engrossed herself in many an outdoor sport; designed a ski to eliminate ankle wrenches; 'designed an "anti-sea-sickness cot" for ocean voyagers...
Twelve sets would be a long tennis match. Mrs. Charlotte Hosmer Chapin and Arnold W. Jones played the equivalent of twelve love sets (72 games) to defeat Mrs. William Endicott and George Lott in the finals for the Rhode Island State Championship. It was thought to be the longest tournament mixed doubles match on record. Scores...
...longest-playing U. S. records, announced last autumn by Thomas Alva Edison, have 450 grooves to the inch; play 40 minutes (TIME...
...Morris Jr. but quite as serious, "Bawby" started the tournament proper by playing four holes steadily and, at the 530-yard fifth hole, putting his second shot on the edge of the huge plateau green. Peering off at the cup about 40 yards away, he said: "This is the longest putt I ever had to make." He sank the putt...