Word: globe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scandalized at the repeated explosions which detonate the political and intellectual life of New England. Does it occur to them that such explosions may be vastly to the credit of a community? Does it occur to them that the deeper scandal may be absence of such explosions? --The Boston Globe...
...stem briar pipe, into which he tamps tobacco with his thumb. His working tools are paper and pencils on a good-sized table and his books (cheaply bound in paper for the most part) on shelves around the wall. Ornaments are a four-foot telescope and a large terrestrial globe. The grand piano in the room is his diversion...
...Half the world came in arms against the Emperor, and lies about him were circulated around the globe. The man who had already celebrated the quarter century jubilee of peace in Europe was said to be a mad instigator of war. Thousands of cannons boomed against him and millions of men were murdered...
...possibly second only to a Harvard student riot scare. Photographic copies of the note, the fingerprints of the child on the paper, an exhaustive investigation of police archives for possible data on "Feagan's gang", formed part of the attempt to trace the criminals to their lair. The Boston Globe gets excited and suggests a crime in front page headlines...
...only sufficient to carry the main phases of the motion to Cambridge, so an exact determination of the distance could not be made. The character of the phases recorded indicates a distance of about 10,000 kilometers, or about 6200 miles, one quarter of the way around the globe...