Word: miles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meanwhile at Bilbao and in the 15-mile swath of Rightist advance last week the Leftists had lost the richest iron mines, the largest smelters and steel mills and some of the finest munitions plants in all Spain. As any sophisticate of the armament business would expect, correspondents found that the manufacture of projectiles had not even been interrupted. The whirling lathes whined on, turning out gleaming 75-millimetre shells which would now be paid for by the Rightists, whereas a few days before they had been paid for by Leftists. Not only did Rightists attacking planes never bomb these...
...efforts this week to cut the Madrid-Valencia highway, Rightist Italian tanks grappled with Leftist Russian tanks along a 15-mile front in what Madrid radio called "the biggest tank battle since the World War." Madrid complained that the Rightist air force has been "doubled" by recent arrivals of Germans and Italians, declared that 15,000 more Italian soldiers had just been landed officered by members of the Italian General Staff. Meanwhile seven German warships left their anchorages in Portuguese waters (see map, p. 15), steaming past Gibraltar into the Mediterranean, where they were joined by the Admiral Graf Spee...
...freshman race Washington led from the start, won without raising one-half beat until the last half-mile. The Washington junior varsity finished first, cutting the three-mile course record by 34 sec. In the varsity race Washington entered the same eight stalwarts-with a new coxswain-who triumphed at Poughkeepsie in 1936 and went on to take the Olympic sprint title. This time the Huskies got away late as Navy skimmed out to lead for the first mile and a half. Washington upped its stroke gradually, nosed ahead at two miles, easily won by four lengths in record-breaking...
...Regatta, joined Harvard's young, bespectacled Tom Bolles in the coach's launch as he put the Crimson shells through final practice Spins. Thus fortified, Harvard's varsity next day launched into a low, calm, powerful stroke, let Yale spend itself in a gallant first two miles. Midway up the Thames, Harvard led by a length, was gaining at 30 strokes to the minute. At the three-mile mark Yale frantically went to 34, then to 36, but Tom Bolles's first Crimson crew, ably stroked by Jim Chace, plowed impressively on to victory...
...build a mosque when they acquire enough money. Elsewhere Moslems who cannot gather in large groups are content to worship in one another's homes. Singapore has the world's only mosque with a public address system, the muezzin's call to prayer being heard a mile away through amplifiers in the mosque's four 90-ft. minarets...