Word: miles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Border. On the claim that 85% of Canadian liquor entering the U. S. is run across the Detroit River, Assistant- Secretary of the Treasury Lowman tightened his blockade along that mile-wide stream until it fairly bristled with Dry and Wet armament. Pleasure craft traversed it at their own peril. The roughest, tough- est gangster element alone stayed in the rum racket to battle...
Universally disregarded, the nine-mile limit has been a potent weapon for the police to hold over fractious drivers and parties to street accidents. Last week Prague taxi drivers and chauffeurs staged an effective protest...
...enough arable land on earth to supply food for an eventual ten or eleven billion persons. The U. S. share of those hypothetical numbers is eight hundred millions, about seven times the present U. S. census. The U. S. now has an average of 40 people to the square mile, Australia two, England 700. If all the earth were as thickly inhabited as is England, world population would be 37 billions...
...Paris, a Mile. Louise Monpeil bade goodbye to friends, drank a "death cocktail" concocted as follows: two parts ink, one part corn remover fluid, two parts industrial alcohol, an olive. The friends gave her an emetic, reproved...
...such a chart a number of strong Harvard runners such as Mason in the sprints, Cummings in the 440. Porter in the half mile, Fobes in the mile and Kuehn in the high jump, and Record in the high hurdles would be looked upon as liable to improve the American team's scoring...