Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nights before Christmas the overcrowded Paris-to-Nancy express stopped on a red signal in a pea-soup fog 15 mi. east of Paris. At 8:15 the Paris-to-Strasbourg express hurtled at 50 m p h into it from behind, knifed the baggage car in two, plowed through four jammed passenger cars...
...fabulous gardens at Nineveh he needed water. Dr. James Henry Breasted, famed founder-director of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, returning from an airplane visit to his twelve lieutenants and their staffs busy in the Near East, said that Sennacherib brought his water through a 3O-mi. aqueduct. A member of the Irak expedition, led by a friendly native, had found a 1,000-ft. section of it still standing on pointed arches. Most ancient aqueduct ever discovered, it was at first mistaken for a "bridge" because the standing part spanned a river. Dr. Breasted...
...oldest in the U. S.; of pneumonia, her first illness; in Manhattan. Her sister. Mrs. Henriette Klein Dannenbaum of Philadelphia long an invalid, awaits her centennial Jan. 16. Born. To Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's Guernsey cow. Klondike: a bull- calf; on the Jacob Ruppert, 247 mi. north of the Antarctic Circle...
...stationary ether, that bodies could move only in relation to one another. Meanwhile Michelson had begun a lifetime task of determining it down to the last fraction of a mile per second. Seven years ago he flashed a beam of light between Mt. Wilson and Mt. San Antonio, 22 mi. away, clocked it over &; over, finally announced that light's speed was 186.284 mi. per sec., with a probable error of less than 2 mi. per sec. But while Dr. Michelson never doubted that light's speed was constant in vacua, the air even between lofty mountain peaks...
Last spring they issued a terse, tight-lipped announcement that they had completed actual measurements, would need six months to check their data, iron out some unaccountable variations. In the Pease-Pearson report last week the variations, up to 12 mi. per sec., were stunningly unaccounted for, were apparently real fluctuations in the speed of light. Worse, they were not irregular but seemed to occur in well-defined rhythms. There was one cycle of 14¾ days, another of about a year, another apparently following the tides of the ocean. And at 9 p. m. every night something happened which...