Word: mi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aintree, an Irish gelding named Early Mist, knocked out of the race last year by a fall at the first jump, managed to clear all 30 barriers, win the 1953 Grand National by 20 lengths. ¶In London, in rowing's most rugged (4½ mi.) race, the Cambridge crew, with a Cambridge, Mass, oarsman named Louis McCagg pulling a sturdy No. 6 oar, upset Oxford by eight lengths. ¶In Columbus, Yale's well-balanced swimming team, piling up points in all but two of the 14 events, defeated Ohio State's defending champions...
...English teacher and athletic coach at an insular college, stayed on to become a businessman, school principal. His new bailiwick, scattered over an expanse of ocean wider than the U.S., consists of 2,130 small, rainy, tropical islands with a total area of 687 sq. mi. and a total native population of 58,000. The territory's value to the U.S. is purely military: some islands serve as bases, others (Bikini, Eniwetok) have served as sites for testing atomic bombs. The new High Commissioner sees his task as "giving the islanders a chance to develop." His headquarters: Honolulu...
...subtly shifting balance of up to eight voice parts from being clearly perceived, especially in the intricate In Ecclesiis and Jubilate Dco. Nevertheless, these works achieved a tremendous excitement, due in no small part to the assistance of an excellent brass choir. The Gabrieli Benedictus and O Jesu Mi Duleissime, on the other hand, were realized with a greater transparency of texture, perhaps because the vocal masses were more evenly balanced against each other in these works. Also, in the case of the Benedictus, the choirs were distributed in three parts of Sanders Theatre while in O Jesu the size...
...Alaska's rich mineral wealth oil has been the hardest to come by. Since the '20s, several companies have drilled its public lands, but all gave up. The only oil that has been found is on the U.S. Navy's 37,000-sq. mi. reserve at Point Barrow. It has cost the U.S. $50 million in eight years of development...
BETWEEN the Sahara and the Union of South Africa lies Tropical Africa, where a quarter of a million whites rule 150,000,000 blacks. Ethiopia and tiny Liberia are its only independent states; the rest (some 6,500,000 sq. mi.) is ruled by four European powers: Britain, France, Belgium and Portugal...