Word: mile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Preston Tucker, would-be auto manufacturer whose company has been having its financial troubles, proved that his car can really go, but money was still a problem. In Gary, Ind., he pleaded guilty to racing his Tucker Torpedo 55 m.p.h. in a 40-mile zone, could find only $10 in his pockets to meet a $15 fine...
...ordinary men . . . gaunt. . . haggard . . . bluish . . . bright, gleaming eyes and exceptional compression of the lips; withal a perfect demeanour"; the dispossessed in the bombed-out ruins of Peckham, whose cheerful fortitude brought tears to the Prime Minister's eyes. The web's perimeter, the deep-indented, 2,000-mile British coastline, is rounded off by the unsleeping, patrolling navy, evoking from old Sea Scholar Churchill the blissful, almost dreamy remark: "Seapower, when properly understood, is a wonderful thing...
...Mile--Won by McLay (RIS); 2, Hamblett (H); 3, Lister (RIS). Time...
Warm Wellesley welcomes await the perservering, perspiring cyclists who finish the ten and a half mile Outing Club bike race to the female-frequented Waban campus tomorrow morning...
...freshman boats race at 3 p.m., followed by two Jayvee boats at 3:30 p.m. and by the varsity lightweights at 4 p.m. All boats will be rowing the Henley distance of a mile and five-sixteenths...