Word: mi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cornish Riviera Limited, Paddington to Devonport, 226.9 mi...
Last week in Minneapolis, Minn., Harry Duell, no Indian, started out to run 90 mi. on an indoor track. After eating up 76 mi. in 9 hr. 15 min. he quit. Cause: leg cramp...
Major H. O. D. Segrave, one-time British aviator, braced himself behind the wheel of a 24-cylinder, 1,000-h.p., 4-ton automobile of British make (Sunbeam); zipped along the tide-smoothed sand at Daytona Beach, Fla.; set a new record for the straightaway mile, 203.792 mi. per hour. Task completed, Major Segrave dismounted to receive prompt recognition from onlooker John D. Rockefeller Sr., in the shape of four shiny new dimes...
Last November one Tomas Zafiro, Tarahumara Indian, startled the athletic world by running from Pachuca, Mexico, to Mexico City, a distance of 100 kilometres, in 9 hr. 37 min. (TIME, Nov. 22). Last week he went after his own record; covered the 62½ mi. (approx.) in the almost incredible time of 7 hr. 35 min. Mexican sportsmen are preparing a petition to have this super-event included in the next Olympic Games...
...license number of an automobileful of thugs fleeing town. Chief Zober and his aids were impressed by the device's perfect functioning for a radius of 150 ft., waited only for a city wide demonstration to adopt the equipment for the Passaic force. Inventor Rusch claimed a 3.5-mi. radius on a wave length (15 metres) short enough to insure secrecy from the listening public...