Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...found it necessary to describe a few facts concerning the Arctic, about which the general public is in complete ignorance. "For instance," he declared, "it is possible to go more than 500 miles farther north on the Atlantic side than on the Pacific, due to the fact that the Gulf Stream penetrates much farther north than does the Japan Current in the Pacific, and as a result the open water extends much nearer the Pole. For this reason it means nothing to ask an Arctic explorer how far north he has been...
...provide paved roads through every county in the state and touching every city of 2000 population or more, to be constructed entirely out of the earnings of the automobile license fees and without any expense to the general tax payers. A waterway system giving Chicago an outlet to the Gulf of Mexico has been adopted and the government engineers have approved...