Word: mi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...longest non-stop flight by a rigid dirigible is 5,066 mi., from Friederickshafen, Germany, to Lakehurst, N.J., by the Zeppelin ZR3 (now the Los Angeles...
...wrist and would not, in all likelihood, have attempted to penetrate the Polar Basin contrary to his announced plan. "Sandy" Smith, chief of the overland party of the expedition, having reached the seacoast on his way to Barrow, flashed word that Eskimos at Thetis Island, 100 mi. southeast of Barrow had seen the Alaskan pass over, presumably on its most recent trip...
...Square to-Exeter Street, where Johnny Miles grinned a broader grin, flung up his arms and burst the tape, not only winner of a historic race but possessor of a new world's record by the astonishing margin of nearly four minutes. The new record for the 26 mi...
...poet himself has been lying since 1895 amid unpretentious surroundings in a Chicago cemetery, but within the fortnight it was announced that the Episcopal church of Kenilworth, 111. (village on Lake Michigan, 16 mi. north of Chicago, where lived William C. Englard Jr., a grandson of Eugene Field), is to have a memorial window and a "poet's corner"; that the poet's body will be moved there, together with personal mementos saved by his widow in the hope that their home would be preserved as a memorial...
...elementary, but what Science must argue out with Dr. Einstein is whether or. not gravity is an instantaneous thing, operating at infinite speed. He says not. One proposition of Relativity is that the pull of a body's gravity travels at the speed of light-about 180,300 mi. per sec. Specifically therefore, the moon's gravity pull is felt on earth one and a third seconds after the moon has passed its zenith; the sun's gravity, 8 seconds after high noon...