Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...India, however, such is the way a statesman practices his profession. Nobody thought Mahatma Gandhi mad, fortnight ago, when he started to walk 200 miles from Ahmedabad to the sea (TIME, March 24). As he trudged along last week, at an average speed of 10 miles per day, Englishmen were not amused but desperately anxious...
Salt & Opium. As he painfully kept up his 200-mile walk, last week?not like an imaginary Statesman Stimson trudging to London?but as the unique "Recpolman" Gandhi, breathless spectators watched...
...Mexicali, Mexico. The plane was forced down, lost, 50 miles south of the border. U. S. and Mexican troops and civilians searched four days before finding Col. Bishop's companion. He directed the searchers 30 miles to the south where lay Col. Bishop, unable to talk or walk. He had subsisted on two sandwiches, two oranges, radiator water from the wrecked plane...
...five years British and Scottish stonemasons chipped and hammered in the Asheville woods while Mr. Vanderbilt toured Europe, sending back carload after carload of French furniture, Gothic cabinets, Jacobean tables, Japanese ivories. On Christmas day, 1895, Vanderbilts assembled to walk through the magnificent gardens laid out by Frederick Law Olmstead, designer of New York's Central Park, to attend the official housewarming of Biltmore House. An assembled chateau, it is designed chiefly after the Chateau de Blois. There was nothing in North America to approach it; no other Vanderbilt had so fine a home...
...Manhattan Ong You, 60, leader of the Hip Sing Tong, was hauled into court, charged with issuing tickets for a policy game. The court interpreter was asked to read one of these. Read he: "The dragon will walk the eternal paths of glory and the lion shall be exercised. Would that our ancestors bring on us only fair skies with shining suns." Ong You, purveyor of Chinese New Year's cards, was discharged...