Word: miles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week the force of stormier winds than those which touched them in July. Gerard Lambert, her owner, received a radio from the captain who was sailing back from Cowes to the U. S.; two days before the hurricane reached Porto Rico, he reported that he had encountered ari 80-mile gale, the worst in his experience. His radio message was brief: "Did not expect ship to live through. Everybody well. . . . Slight damage to starboard launch...
Professor L. C. Graton resumes his duties after a year of inspecting deep mines and tunnels in Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America. He was sent by the Bureau of International Research to study the characteristics of ores which lie more than a mile below the ground, and the methods by which mines are constructed at such depths...
...Dreyfuss," gulped Mile. Laurent, "who are you anyway?" but Dreyfuss offered an excuse, kissed her hand, was gone...
...Trade Union Congress, settling to business, refused to admit delegates from the Seamen's Union (suspected of being red); refused to receive a delegation of unemployed coal miners who had walked many a mile from their mine to appeal for help; and shouted down John Joseph Jones M. P., famed as "Jumping Jack Jones," when he rose to protest that the seamen and miners ought to be granted at least a hearing...
...abductor's and abductee's horses in the desert. Thanks to Judith's habit of daily ablution, the water supply at that juncture amounts to half-a-canteen-full. When abductor, abductee and a young would-be rescuer reach the nearest water-hole, following a 20-mile drag over the hot sands, they find the water-hole has gone...