Word: miles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crashed. The bandits leaped out, looked around for their enemy, shot an innocent truck driver who was passing, started to run up the street. Plunk! Another bullet struck one of them in the shoulder. Plunk! One of the bandits fell dead. The other ran on, was captured half-mile away...
Edward J. Baker's five-year-old Greyhound, No. 1 trotter of the decade: a mile race (against time); in 1 min., 56 sec. flat, finally breaking the world's record (1:56¼) set by famed Peter Manning 15 years ago; after three unsuccessful attempts this summer; at Lexington...
...musical life of London in 1888 had more Maggie Moores, Mile. Colombatis and Mme Belle Coles, forgotten today, than Pattis, Nordicas, Richters. Corno di Bassetto, busy with political agitating, missed a new Dvorak symphony and a concert by Harold Bauer (who played the violin for the first ten years of his career before becoming a pianist). Shaw on Patti: There has not yet been witnessed a dramatic situation so tragic that Madame Patti would not get up in the middle of it to bow and smile if somebody accidentally sprung his opera hat. She is simply a marvelous Christy Minstrel...
Freshman C. E. Crotty yesterday afternoon won the annual University Cross Country Handicap Race. Crotty's time for the four mile course that runs along the banks of the Charles was 26 minutes and 58 seconds, a full minute ahead of C. D. B. Howell, also a Freshman, who finished second...
Into the far reaches of southeastern Asia, Java, and the Phillippines a 25,000 mile ancient man hunt started from New York yesterday, when Dr. and Mrs. Hellmut do Terra sailed for England on the S.S. Manhattan...