Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been deepened, to go 50 miles farther up the Columbia to The Dalles, and when eight or nine more dams are built (if ever), will open some 600 miles of the Columbia River to navigation. At present one boat with 600-ton capacity is being built and half a dozen 300-ton barges are planned to make use of the 50 miles of new watercourse...
...Madrid-Valencia road, the capital's only outlet to the sea, raged indecisively. For the first time in five weeks, long-range shells from Generalissimo Francisco Franco's White guns zoomed into Madrid, struck the long-suffering, U. S.-owned telephone building, killed a half-dozen citizens. From the Madrid deadlock Generalissimo Franco turned to strike at Valencia where the Radical Government is taking cover, sent an attacking force to Viver, 34 miles northwest of Valencia, while invading White planes dropped incendiary bombs on Valencia itself. At Oviedo the Reds gained their only success. Reckless Asturian miners paced...
...helps his mother around the house with such tall chores ar washing windows and wiping ceilings clean of dust. Ceilings in the Wadlow home are only a fraction of an inch above the boy's blond head. His bed measures nine feet. For breakfast he eats a dozen eggs...
...named Knop (1859). Growing commercial crops in water is another matter. At Berkeley, Dr. Gericke aimed at producing tank crops which would economically compete with or surpass soil-grown crops. So successful was he that several California vegetable and flower growers have changed to water culture, more than a dozen branch experiment stations have been opened, and Dr. Gericke enjoys a "fan mail" of some 500 letters a week...
...Malley and his men had many a brush with the police, the Black & Tans, the British soldiers, waged a waspish war attacking isolated barracks and police stations, barricading roads, ambushing convoys. He was wounded half a dozen times. One unlucky morning he was captured. Put through a grisly third-degree, beaten up, constantly threatened with death, he was finally clapped into Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin's strongest. Few months later, before his identity had been discovered, he and a few bold comrades escaped. A seasoned veteran now at 24, O Malley was sent back to his guerrilla battlefield, this time...