Word: miles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jones" did motor forth, however, without his usual police escort. He paused for a picnic lunch on Bull Run battlefield, was late for tea at his son's colonial cottage a mile from the University of Virginia campus. Faculty members assured him the boy's law study marks were satisfactory...
Although Penn Tuttle will not be running today, Gene Clark, Ros Brayton, and Chick Oldfather will handle the mile, and Dave Simboli the two-mile. Because spring is late this year and the meet early, the milers will run a three-quarter mile stretch, and the two-milers a one and a half mile route...
Harvard's 15 man ski team captured the sixth annual Harvard-Dartmouth slalom by a margin of 1 minute, 43.2 seconds over the half-mile course at Pinkham Notch, N. H., late Sunday afternoon...
...modern highway follows the historic roads to Oregon all the way. The wagon trains of a century ago ranged over the valleys to get out of ruts and dust; in some places the Oregon Trail was 20 miles wide. But US 30, following the long curves on the north bank of the Platte River across Nebraska, climbing on its oiled roadbed to cross the Laramie Mountains of Wyoming, swinging north past the ghost towns and hot springs of Idaho, most nearly follows the route of the greatest mass migration in U. S. history: almost every mile...
...determined to leave some mark on the face of their enormous country; violent but good-natured, naive but shrewd, poetic without knowing it, unintimidated by distance and too engrossed in their struggles with nature to bear grudges for long. And at the end of the 2,000-mile road they can understand William Clark's elation when he wrote, at the mouth of the Columbia: "Ocian in view...