Word: length
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME erred in stating that the Queen Mary's promenade deck is 570 yd. around. Cunard White Star figures that approximately four laps around it make a mile. Length of Burghley's 58-sec. run was therefore approximately a quarter-mile, for which the world's indoor record is 49.6 sec. Not only was Lord Burghley handicapped by the sharp turns, but also by full evening dress: tails, stiff shirt, pumps...
First total solar eclipse since February 1934, at its broadest, near Lake Baikal, the shadow across Asia's face was 82 miles wide. Length of path: 8,900 miles. Maximum duration of totality: 2 min. 31½ sec. For months past the Soviet Government has been sending lecturers and demonstrators into villages along the eclipse path, so that ignorant peasants would not become terrified and backslide into orgies of religious propitiation...
Keep cool all over all day in B.V.D. These loose fitting, coat cut undershirts and knee length drawers and union suits are the favourites of college men who wear the best. Write for booklet "Cool as a Sea Breeze." It's free...
...Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for example, he wants to route all six railroads serving the city into one terminal, causing the abandonment of two passenger stations, four freight depots. To compensate terminal employes who would lose their jobs, he suggested that the railroads pay them a dismissal fee, varying with length of service, but equal on the average to a year's pay. The railroads did nothing about...
...that during the recent depression all graduates of the Harvard School of Landscape Architecture have been occupied' at various types of work related to their profession, and that none, even the men graduating last June, have failed to secure positions in this particular field. No one can forecast the length of time that this demand for trained men will continue, but there is every indication that the majority of the public recreational projects will be maintained and that their development will proceed even on restricted lines. The field of the private estate work has been reduced by the economic situation...