Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said: "Your California climate is certainly all that you advertise...
Then he showed me this advertisement: "Readers of the Literary Digest will receive the fastest service of any national magazine-within 8 days after going to press we deliver everywhere from Maine to California...
Eternal cycle. Among those whose minds were groping for the heart of being rather than its stomach was Robert Andrews Millikan, Nobel Prize winner, student of the cosmic ray (TIME, Nov. 23, 1925),† physicist of the California Institute of Technology. For years he has been in the vanguard of those attacking the foundations of the universe...
...late years, inspiration has given way to rules. Company officers, forming the Committee on Nomenclature, methodically assign prefixes, thus: Mt., or Mountain for observation cars containing sections; Saint or Mac for cars with twelve sections, one drawing room; Silver for the California Limited of the Santa Fe; Great for the Great Northern Oriental Limited; Sunset for Sunset Limited of the Southern Pacific...
From Alpine to Pulpito, Mexico, is another stretch of road theoretically under construction; and another further southwest. In between, the Orient has two good divisions, the Mountain running through Chihuahua City, and the Pacific, wiggling to Topolobampo on the Gulf of California...