Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scout Zembrana left Venezuela in 1929, tramped across the wilds of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, the extreme northern tip of Chile, the jungles of embattled Bolivia and Paraguay and on to Argentina's spacious, glittering Buenos Aires where he arrived last week aged 14, approximately at the halfway mark ot his walk. With at least another 4,000 miles of tramping ahead of him, Scout Zembrana stoutly declared: "I expect to claim President Gomez's reward. I have now only to walk through Uruguay, Brazil [which is larger than the 48 United States] and the Guianas...
...reads voraciously, talks learnedly on any and all subjects, draws much of his information from clippings, books and magazines which his employes are expected to mark for him every day. His usual clients regard him as all-wise, even when he persuades them to take courses against their will. For instance, he advised George Washington Hill to make a full report to American Tobacco stock-holders on the company's bonus system...
However uninspiring, the 280 m.p.h. mark earned an additional $1,135 for Roscoe Turner, the able, gaudy flyer who collected $5,050 last fortnight by winning the transcontinental Bendix Trophy Race. Last week his Wedell-Williams racer flashed off a 249 m.p.h. lap downwind...
Repeal last week passed the halfway mark and swept on unchecked. Votings...
...atmosphere at a big airport is always charged with some excitement. Even a little sport plane whizzing in from a pleasure hop makes visitors stand still and watch. At night, the red obstruction lights on outlying buildings and poles, the lower amber lights stretching around the field to mark it for invisible arrivals from the sky, and the beacon revolving like a spotlight groping for the actor, make a big airport such as Floyd Bennett Field into a gigantic theatre where mass drama can take place. There were easily 50,000 people in the audience at Floyd Bennett one night...