Word: line
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ocean floor about where he would like it. He asked Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams to send a survey ship to check his calculations. He was right. The survey showed a little plateau just 400 miles from Manhattan and 375 miles from Bermuda, in an almost direct line. It is six miles long by four miles wide and only two miles below sea level, whereas the surrounding ocean is three to four miles deep. The difference in depth means thousands of dollars of savings to Mr. Armstrong and his financiers on the 3½ inch steel cable...
Pitt's panthers pitapatted round Nebraska; the line poked holes, Fullback Parkinson plunged twice for touchdowns. Pittsburgh 12, Nebraska 7. Gene McEver and his teammate Hackman taxied 45 yards on short gains to ring the metre. Tennessee 6, Alabama...
When Cagle made the Army's third touchdown Harvard looked through, but Harding caught a long pass standing on the goal line, then fell across it, and 57,000 people saw Wood kick the goal that tied the score. Army 20, Harvard...
...with a bad leg, Coach Knute Rockne told his team to start Savoldi at fullback so as to give Moon Mullins a rest. Substitute Savoldi smashed the line and skirted ends for a total of 173 yards while other Notre Damerungs, inspired, ripped Wisconsin...
...Olympic in Southampton, England, last week, carpenters went to work on a bunk. They tore out the end of it, made it much longer. They put a row of thick struts under it to make it bear twice a normal sleeper's weight. The White Star Line took these precautions, not because it had accepted an elephant as a first class passenger, but because a prospective passenger named Primo Carnera is proportioned like the giants of myth. Passenger Camera, an Italian pugilist, planned his trip to the U. S. as a business venture. He felt that he ought...