Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only for a moment, however, did Governor Earle leave his hearers in doubt about his imaginary line. "From my present home," he said, "it is only an hour's drive to the Mason-Dixon line. From my birthplace in Chester County, it is even closer. . . . Whether I am north of it, in my home, or south of it on my farm in Cambridge, Md., I find men and women occupied with similar problems...
...speech there could be no doubt that Governor Earle had undertaken a great feat, never before performed by man: having made a political crossing of the color line, to make a political crossing of the Mason-Dixon...
Within two days the Premier had his Cabinet lined up-the broadest, most nearly "national" in Japan's history. In it were a count, two army and navy men, an airplane manufacturer, eight civilians (five of them from the House of Peers, two from the Diet's major parties). As chief secretary of the Cabinet the Premier chose Akira Kazami, a minor politician with no money. Kazami was as surprised by the appointment as the rest of Japan. With a deep belly laugh he roared: "Ha! Ha! Wisdom is not in my line; neither is money. Turn...
...crossing the International Date Line, the eclipse accomplished the feat-not rare for eclipses-of ending the day before it started. It began on Wednesday, finished on Tuesday. Since it crossed the Equator twice and also the 180th meridian, it entered four hemispheres. Most curious of all, although until this week there had been no seven-minute-plus eclipse in 1,200 years, there will be two more of them in the 20th Century-one in Ceylon, Siam and the Philippines in 1955, the other in South America and Africa in 1973. The U. S., however, will get only...
...been sticking to religion lately. When asked to comment on the fact that he had a new superior, succeeding the late, well-meaning Bishop Michael James Gallagher of Detroit (TIME, Feb. 1), Father Coughlin was polite and virtuous. "I am highly pleased," said he. "I will fall in line exactly with any expressed suggestion of Archbishop Mooney...