Word: mile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of the lack of space at the new building, however, a corps of volunteers had to transport food from a kitchen half a mile away Only after the Committee could raise money for extra room could the food shop begin to match the gift store in popularity...
...West had scored. Moscow reacted with a thunderous press and radio barrage intended to intimidate all those who signed the pact, or who wanted to sign (e.g., Italy, who is being invited to join this week). In Norway's far north, where the 122½-mile Russian border is guarded on the Norwegian side by only a few ski patrols, there were rumors of Russian troop movements...
...comparing its turf champions. Last month in Lexington, Ky., breeders of the Thoroughbred Club of America decided to do something about it. They agreed on a plan to standardize rankings of the nation's top-flighters with a system of handicap weights based on performances at a mile-and-a-quarter. It was to be called the Yardstick...
...theory that one pound equals one length at a mile-and-a-quarter, Man o' War came out on the Yardstick seven lengths better than 1948's wonder horse, Citation...
Both the Rest Center and the Seminar use the castle Schloss Leopoldskron, situated in landscaped gardens about a mile outside Salzburg in the American occupation zone...