Word: inland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next year, China leased Kiaochau (in which Tsingtao is situate), with a sphere of influence extending inland for a radius of 30 miles, to Germany for 99 years. The Japanese captured the area in 1914 and, in 1922, returned it to China in accordance with the provision of the Washington Pact...
...mountains, broad lakes flooded the plains. The ground, hardened by years of baking, at first shed the water in sheets. Then hardy seeds sprouted forth; and, where there had been deserts, lush meadows appeared. The emaciated cattle of Santa Elena gorged and fattened. At Talaro, an inland oil settlement which had lain lifeness in January, a network of streams covered the waste land in March, filling the desert and the very village streets with myriad spawn and minnows...
...could have predicted that a storm was due- but none predicted what took place. Shortly after noon, Death came from the skies. It struck first in Missouri, touched Biehle and Annapolis, hurdled the Mississippi River into Illinois, in the unaccountable way of such storms, and struck about five miles inland at Murphysboro. For the next 30 miles, it seems to have swept on most fiercely through De Soto, Bush, West Frankfort, Parrish, passing about five miles north of Herrin. Then it seems to have stopped again, 20 or 30 miles to McLeansboro and Carmi, crossed the Wabash River into Indiana...
...Palm Beach, a speed boat belonging to Gar Wood, famed Detroit sportsman, rushed at high speed along an inland waterway, leaped over the bank onto the land, broke down a tree, buried itself in the underbrush, was wrecked...
...stock and bond holders and the same number of employes, with equipment consisting of 366,197 miles of track, 2,408,518 freight cars, 66,070 locomotives, 55,939 passenger cars, 532 separate railways (exclusive of some 855 short line railways, not taken over) and 25 coastwise and inland steamship lines, with terminals, floating equipment, elevators and other essentials...