Word: maines
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...declared war on France, a vanguard of 590 U. S. warriors landed at Cherbourg from the S. S. Republic and S. S. President Harding. They were met by the opposite of an enemy but the temper of their reception nevertheless furnished their alert commanders with hints of what the main contingent might look forward to next month...
Gradually rules rather than decorative diversion came to govern the sport. There grew to be two main divisions-the one called "bowling" or "ten-pins," playe'd now in indoor alleys by barflies and roustabouts; the other called "Bowls" or "Bowling-on-the-Green," a handsome recreation for gentlemen, a game which in tempo compares with other present-day exercises, as the courante compares to the Charleston. It is played now by members of the Elizabethan Club at Yale University, and by the members of many an old, austere and gentle club, who are too antique for the frantic...
...Last week, through its Baltimore Sun agent, it demanded: " 1) A line paralleling the N. Y. C. along the Erie lake shore from or near Brockton, some 50 miles west of Buffalo, to Toledo; 2) Ownership or joint control of the Lackawanna as a means of relieving the present main line of the Pennsylvania from Harrisburg, Pa., to Trenton, N. J., of traffic congestion; 3) A short freight line from Chicago to St. Louis, preferably the Chicago & Eastern Illinois...
There is, on the Andean plateau in Peru, a standard-gauge railroad owned by an American mining company (Cerro de Pasco Copper Corp.) connecting their camps with the main line of the Central Railway of Peru at Oroya...
...main line of this railroad (Cerro de Pasco Railway) is 132 kilometres (about 80 miles) in length and every foot of it is over 12,000 feet above the sea. Its terminus, the ancient mining town of Cerro de Pasco, is 14,300 feet above the sea. Quite a way up in the air-far above the Moffat road's modest 11,600 feet-but let us consider the Central of Peru, which was- and probably still is-the highest standard-gauge railroad in the world...