Word: length
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roundly defeated it in a sham engagement of which one result was the capture of real horses and mules for which P. I. D. had no earthly use. Next day, its task accomplished, the "streamlined division" turned back to San Antonio. Texas traffic laws do not limit the length of moving rows of cars. In one huge serpentine column which stretched out to 65 miles long at a speed of 30-35 rn.p.h., the P. I. D.'s 1,180 supply trucks, passenger cars, motorcycles, reconnaissance cars, anti-aircraft trucks and baggage trailers roared over the 326 miles...
...made to his questions, collected and studied reports as he went along, and on returning to Brussels closeted himself for weeks, writing up his own reports to King Albert and preparing his speeches to the Senate. As an instance, His Royal Highness drew the Senate's attention at length to the conditions and prices under which the vital tropical drug quinine was available in the Congo, his recommendations leading to the State's supplying quinine free to the indigent and securing reduced prices for natives whose purchasing power by European standards...
...original cost by the simple expedient of writing off large chunks to such things as flood control or navigation improvement. In the opinion of powermen, who must pay interest on the entire cost of their dams and plants, these write-offs made the yardstick something under 36 inches in length. The President's suggestion was to bring the two yardsticks in line-by cutting a few inches off the private yardstick. He said nothing, however, about lightening the "death sentence" on holding companies...
Indicating the likelihood that the entire length of pipe is weak, the men stated that they may inspect a large part of the river-house water system. In order to do this, they would have to make several additional excavations...
...different Pullmans at the same moment. Rushing to the uncle on the right, he cried, "Wait a minute, Cousin Arthur is approaching on my left!" His uncle-by-marriage looked startled and gave the porter only a quarter instead of fifty cents. Already the Vagabond had raced one Pullman length and accosted his cousin. "Hello," he shrieked. "Come hurry with me, your uncle is waiting on my right." Before he could speak, the Vagabond had herded him and his uncle into the automobile...