Word: mile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Procedure. Russia's position was beginning to look embarrassing. Plain fact was that, as soon as City of Flint sailed under the German flag, it risked capture by British warships, faced at the minimum a 1,300-mile voyage through blockaded waters, at least 50 miles of known mine fields, to reach a German port. Equally plain was it that, if Russia permitted the ship to remain in port, she violated international law, that if she released it to her U. S. owner (as the U. S., after a Supreme Court decision, eventually released the Appam), she would antagonize...
...resume at the Sorbonne his course in rhythmocatechism. Its title: Les Rhytlimes Formulaires de I'Apocalypse d'Ezdras et le Style Oral Palestinien. Père Jousse's first enrolée was his good friend and collaborator, a tiny, wrinkled, white-haired spinster, by name Mile Gabrielle Desgrées du Lou. This lady, who must enroll as a student in order to get in the Sorbonne," does Père Jousse's gestures for him on the platform. While chanting, for example, Jesus' parable of the houses built on sand and on rock...
...large wings carry, "light planes," which commercial pilots call flivvers, pop-bottles, and of which an unprecedented 2,500 are being turned out this year, are all but foolproof. They cost as little as $1,098 new, far less at secondhand, may be hired at 4? per seat per mile. In one such, Langewiesche flew from New York to Key West. The cost of fuel, oil, hangars, a standard 20-hour engine check...
...race was held over a five-mile trail, and only Bill Watson of Yale and Dave Little of Princeton the Mikkolamen from sweeping the field. The Eli captain finished first in 27:08 and the Tiger was the runnerup, but the next seven places were taken by the Crimson...
With Langy Burwell, Penn Tuttie, and Gene Clark leading the way, Jaakko Mikkola's men will be slightly favored when they tackle the hilly four and one half mile course back of the Yale Bowl...