Word: miles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were all on the Leftist side. A brave but foolhardy attack by Catalan militiamen against a Rightist stronghold known as Hill, 1100 was beaten back after a loss of some 400 men caught in a blast of machine-gun fire on the barbed wire. Not even one Spanish square mile changed hands last week...
...newest Saks-Fifth Avenue will be built on Wilshire Boulevard in moderately undeveloped territory a mile and a half from the centre of Beverly Hills. But more important than its distance from the centre of Beverly Hills is its distance from Fifth Avenue. Saks-Fifth Avenue already has a big branch in Chicago and sleek resort shops in such places as Jackson, N. H. and Sun Valley, Idaho. Another in Greenwich, Conn., was opened last month. But no New York store has ever gone so far away from home as California, apparently because New York merchants were afraid that Californians...
Finally in 1906, after tremendous persuasion of stubborn elements, he won enough support to set up a division of education in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In 1920 he reached another mile-stone when the division was separated and a Faculty of Education came into being. An endowment of two million dollars enabled the bringing forth of the Graduate School of Education...
...only all over Moscow, but all over Madrid. Madrid and Moscow editors front-paged portraits of Sun Stalin above eulogistic articles. Speeding from Madrid last week an official Spanish Leftist delegation arrived in Moscow bearing gifts and greetings. Madrid's main thoroughfare for a distance of a mile was decked with crossed flags: the red, yellow and purple tricolor of Leftist Spain and the hammer & sickle banner of Communism in general and the Soviet Union in particular. Moscow marchers across...
...powerful "communist" Inca kings, later for their Spanish conquerors, an endless stream of gold flowed to their high capitals from mines deep in the gorges of the Andes. Forced labor was used and few except the conquered Indians and their masters knew the exact location of the mines. Along mile-high precipices, over the backs of peaks twice that height, the laborers toiled with bags of nuggets. Llamas could carry only 100 Ib. through that rarefied air, burros-even though an extra set of nostrils had been punched through their nasal passages at birth-about 150 Ib. Men were cheaper...