Word: mile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After that, we sailed mostly on canals, or at night. Neither of these were particularly conducive to postcard reproduction. On the canals you couldn't see the boat for the cows. The Dutch canals run merrily through mile after mile of cow pasture, and all the cows spend most of their time sloping fore-and-aft on a dike and watching people sail by. We started mooing at the cows to break the monotony of higher-than-land-level sailing, but one day we mooed, tacked, and tried to start the engine at the same time, and created a shoreline...
Captained by Jee Leeming, the 12-man varsity leaves for Franklin Park early this afternoon. The team will run a 4-, mile-plus course, while the freshmen tackle and slightly shorter. This may well prove a blessing for the '53 team. Mikkola reports that only three of four of the 20 freshmen now working out have ever run in cross-country competition before...
According to plans announced by Paul B. Finney '50, band president, last night, the musicians will meet four cadet corps at Allston Station at 12:45 p.m., then lead the marchers along the one mile route to Soldier's Field, arriving at 1:10 p.m. The band will play for both pre-game and half-time maneuvers...
...aviators in the business, tried to defend the Worth letter a few weeks ago "at the peril of my naval career," he was promptly moved lout of Washington to a job with the fleet. the white House announcement of atomic explosions in Russia, coupled with persistent rumors of 5000 mile-ranged rockets coming out of the Russian experimental stations on the Baltic, stimulated a drive in Congress for a bigger Air Force. With the present limited defense budget, naval officers fretfully equated this against smaller fleet...
...town's traffic problem was slowly being untangled. Two weeks ago Governor Jim Duff presided over the dynamiting-through of a ¾-mile-long tunnel under Squirrel Hill, part of a highway which will carry traffic from the Pennsylvania Turnpike through the city and across the Monongahela towards the west...