Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Never Before." The Mississippi River at St. Louis carries water from 691,000 sq. mi. of territory. It is normally lowest in winter when ice holds moisture back in the headwaters. It is normally highest between April and July. In June 1929 it was at top level, even with its banks, 30.8 ft. above the zero mark on the Weather Bureau's gauge. There was no June rise this year. In July the river fell more than six inches. Last week it was zero, an all-time low for July. "Never before," declared the Weather Bureau, "has there been...
...meter free style: Olive McKean 1-mi. free style: Lenore Kight 3-meter springboard diving: Katherine Rawls 220-yd. backstroke: Alice Bridges 440-yd. free style : Lenore Kight 880-yd. free style : Lenore Kight 220-yd. breast stroke: Ann Govednik Platform diving: Dorothy Poynton Hill 300-meter medley: Katherine Rawls
...Asmar, 50 mi. northeast of Bagdad, other Oriental Institute diggers turned up stone statues of the "Lord of Fertility" and the "Mother Goddess." Both had huge round eyes and grand-piano legs, were otherwise personable. The Lord of Fertility was about 30 in. tall, wore a knee-length fringed skirt, an elegantly curled beard. The Mother Goddess, somewhat shorter than her consort, wore a close-fitting garment like a slip, with an almost modern cape effect on one side. The statues were ascribed to the Sumerian culture...
Palestine. In the city of Lachish, 35 mi. southwest of Jerusalem, King Rehoboam, son of Solomon, built a great wall. Beyond the wall some seasons ago a deep ditch was found. Clearing away the filling this year a British expedition led by J. L. Starkey uncovered, 60 ft. below the city level, a temple erected long before Rehoboam's wall. It was first built in the 15th Century B.C., when southern Palestine was under the political sway and religious influence of Egypt. Most valued find was a ewer inscribed with characters like magnifications of bizarre microbes. On examination this...
Finally the barnacle-crusted hulk of the Islander came grudgingly to the surface, and the salvage boats nursed it toward Admiralty Island, 15 mi. from Juneau. Last week the wreck was beached. Frank Curtis and his men crawled inside, pried into every nook & cranny, sifted the cold slime and sludge foot by foot. Not an ounce of gold did they find...