Word: miles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...skis, started down a steep slope in the direction of the Soviet frontier and disappeared in gathering darkness. Japanese frontier patrols, summoned by the driver, found no trace of the ski-elopers, said they had apparently made for a Soviet frontier post about a mile from the spot where they started their slide...
After setting out on a hazardous, snow-covered, 19-mile lap from Shippensburg, Pa., the group has not been heard from for the first time in its trip, which commemorates the pioneer movement of 150-years...
...Mile, Boulanger will also give a course at Wellesley, but it has not yet been determined whether Harvard students will be admitted there as well. She will set another precedent this winter when she will be the first woman to conduct a major symphony orchestra in America...
...shek's commander. After he had gone through the Red lines he was followed (although he did not know it) by roving White "bandits" bent on robbery. The Reds received reports that a crazy "foreign devil'' was leading an attack on them by marching a mile ahead of his troops. First Soviet citizens to whom Snow spoke-a farmer and a local official-said cheerfully, "Hai p'a," which Snow thought meant "I'm afraid." Snow did not know what they were afraid of, finally discovered that in Shensi dialect "Hai p'a" means...
...magnificent clowning of Bert Lahr and Joan Davis, who make a good bid to steal the show. In between these extremes, however, is the simpler and far more appealing humor of the naive mind, childishly coping with the wicked world. At this sort of thing, strangely enough, Mile Simon is very good indeed...