Word: peerless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long distance running as no other white men had, etc., etc., etc. Yet had the writer been informed he would have found out that these records were away below those of Newton made only a few months and years before this, and none seemed to know that the peerless runner George Littlesond of Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, came to Madison Square, N. Y. and on Dec. 1882 covered 623 mi., 1,230 yd. in six days, the longest distance ever covered by a human being in that period of time, whether he be a Flying Finn or a Red Indian. Thus...
...liberated Rhineland which ended last week (see above) was calculated to ruffle U. S. equanimity. Asked Burgomaster Karl Russel of Coblenz, addressing the Hindenburg banquet: "How could we have endured the 'roughneck' methods of the Americans and the calculated oppression of the French if our peerless Rhine and Moselle wines had not helped us to bear our sad fate...
...sake of Progress, for the safety of his progressive régime Dictator Kemal was forced to put such arrant, desperate reactionaries to the sword. In one respect his own capital, progressive Angora, is retrograde. It no longer produces peerless Angora cats. But of all coats the Angora has still the longest, silkiest haired...
...Peerless Pattern...
Motormakers and motorsellers last week discussed a suggestion offered in the Automotive Daily News by President James A. Bohannon of Peerless. The plan: an intensive drive to sell new cars to people directly or indirectly dependent on the automobile industry, thus start the public also buying, start business booming. Most dealers, sales off, approved...