Word: betweens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The line that Mr. James wants to build runs parallel to the coast, about 175 miles inland, from Klamath Falls, Ore., to Paxton, Calif. Only one through route, the Southern Pacific, exists between the Pacific Northwest and San Francisco. The James extension would join the Great Northern and the Western...
Painter Robinson's murals are each about 15 ft. x 8 ft. Beginning with an animated commercial squabble between the Persians and the Arabs, they progress to Carthaginians in the Mediterranean striking a crafty bargain with the Egyptians. Venetians in the Levant when bartering was done with benefit of...
Rabelais' jocose giant Pantagruel, under whose tongue a whole army once hid, might find the 500-ft. U. S. plane now being designed no wonder. But certainly the Arabian roc, which carried off elephants for its nestlings as an eagle rapes a mouse, would shy from the monstrous thing...
In a quiet, smoky room in Manhattan, 32 of the foremost bridge-players of the U. S. met in fours last week to play for the Harold S. Vanderbilt Cup. At a corner table the donor of the cup sat, ruddy, youthful, in a brown business suit. Expert Sidney S...
Chess matches last so long that they acquire an individual character, an atmosphere, like that of a long book or a ponderous piece of music. When Dr. Alexander Alekhine and E. D. Bogoljubow began to play for the championship of the world last September in Wiesbaden it was soon evident...