Word: mi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boat sink at sea? Last week three mariners of Cornwall and a wireless operator set out to discover, taking with them in the 40-ft., 15 h.p. Elisabeth and Blanche, a modified lifeboat, only hardtack, chocolate, condensed milk, tinned stuffs and vegetable extracts to eat on a 38,000 mi. cruise around the world. They will stop at 50 points and report their condition, which, if ever it becomes ominous, will certainly do so on the 4,600-mi. stretch between Tasmania and Durban. Despatches did not state whether or not the Cornish mariners would indulge themselves at ports...
...Navy Department announced tests of anti-aircraft fire against a sausage-shaped target, 10 ft. in diameter, 45 ft. long, towed by the Shenandoah at 33 mi. an hour, more than 4,000 ft. up, and fired at by 3-in. guns from the battleship Texas. Six hundred and thirty-five rounds of shrapnel were fired. The target showed 763 holes, 11 made by unexploded shells...
...When planes attack, they travel about three times 33 miles an hour. There's a little difference in shooting at a slowly moving target and trying to hit one going 100 mi. an hour...
...Francisco, the U. S. minesweeper Ortolan puffed through the Golden Gate bearing rare birds, plants, fishes, reptiles, fossils, insects collected by field workers of the California Academy of Sciences in the Revillagigedo Islands (400 mi. west of Mexican mainland in Lat. 19° N.). Dr. G. Dallao Hanna exhibited seeds of a new unnamed, unclassified fruit the size and shape of a ripe olive but sweet of pulp; related that herds of whales, chiefly mothers and their calves, sport in those waters today as they did when their numbers earned for the locality, from old-time mariners, the name...
...pleasant, upon a sunny day, to motor the 26 mi. between Paris and Corbell; not so pleasant on a rainy day; still less pleasant to walk. But to swim from Corbell to Paris in the dirty brown Seine, famed swimming-pool for suicides-to swim at 2 in the morning, with the water algid, and rain stabbing the darkness...