Word: miles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only had Chillán been destroyed; the full force of the quake had torn up a vast, 450-mile-long segment of the narrow nation. Some 20 towns and villages throughout Chile's richest agricultural and mining regions had been leveled. At Concepión, Chile's third largest city, 70% of the buildings were on the ground. Chillán, hardest hit, looked from the air like a mammoth anthill overturned. Its church spires and jagged masonry protruded through the debris. Its surviving residents scrabbled in the ruins for the dead and injured. In the countryside...
Near New Berlin, the Illinois Conservation Department bombing crew set off their 13th rookery blast of the season. In a crow rookery a quarter-mile long, 180 specially designed dynamite bombs were exploded, killing an estimated 25,000 to 30,000 crows. Approximate number of crows killed this winter in Illinois' crow...
Coach Jaako Mikkola's one-mile relay team of Hobart Lerner, Joe Donnelly, Frannie King and Jim Lightbody outran relay combinations from Princeton and Yale to win the Big Three winter title in the time of 3:26 to provide the big spark for Harvard Saturday night at the New York Millrose games...
...mile relay team, composed of Ros Brayton, Al Hanlon, Jack McClure, and Joe Bradley, finished second to a very strong N. Y. U. outfit, but managed to nose out Yale, Dartmouth, and Columbia in that order for Harvard's only other points at the Games...
...Millrose Games in New York, the mile relay team won the Big Three title...