Word: mi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...black-haired, sleek and wiry, the other burlier, rougher of hair, braver of necktie. They were the far-flown Lindberghs of France, Lieutenant Dieudonne* Costes and Lieut.-Commander Joseph Lebrix, just in from Paris via Africa, South America, Mexico, New Orleans and Montgomery, Ala. They had covered 22,843 mi. and, after handshaking and photography on the South Lawn, they soon hopped off again for Manhattan, whence they thought they might fly to San Francisco before going home. Said Flier Lebrix: "We do not want to go back to Paris by plane, because Lindbergh has already done that. His flight...
...maintain a circle 30 mi. in diameter, spaced some 12 mi. apart-8 cruisers...
Said Critic Richard L. Stokes of the New York Evening World: "Her very comprehensible alarm had not been conquered when the moment befell for her first aria, 'Mi chiamano Mimi,' which contained so many errors of note and time particularly in the tricky opening phrase, that Mr. Bellezza in the orchestra pit must have suffered not a few palpitations of angina pectoris. Like many another tone in this act, the final high C was gratingly off pitch...
...corporation in Japan (capital, $20,000,000; gross annual earnings $55,000,000) was formed last week upon the merging of the Tokyo Electric Light Co. and the Tokyo Electric Power Co. One of the largest public utility companies in the world, it operates over 10,000,000 sq. mi. of Japanese territory, serves 10,000,000 (one-sixth) of Japan's population. The Guaranty Company of Manhattan helped accomplish the merger...
Italy, on its 119,242 sq. mi. of mountainous country, supports a population of 39,989,385 souls. The support is poor. Half of the people work on farms. Most of the others work in factories. The factory workers, although quick, industrious and intelligent, are not robust. They can do only light work...