Word: miles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West on the river about half a mile from the Square is Stillman Infirmary--temporary home of sufferers from colds and minor plagues...
PROVIDENCE, R. I., Sept. 22--(ILNC) The 80-mile hurricane that lashed all New England last night left Brown University's 174-year old campus a jumble of overturned tree giants ivy, and fallen roofs...
...bombed systematically at intervals of every three hours. The loss of life was more than half of London's air-raid toll during the entire World War. Reputedly used for the first time was a new bomb, the gas expansion of which killed people an eighth of a mile away from the explosion, stunned those a quarter of a mile away. Although Barcelona's morale showed signs of cracking, the heavy raids ceased suddenly...
Donald Ray Lash, onetime Indiana University and U. S. Olympic track team star, who last year ran the fastest (8 min. 58 sec.) two-mile race in history, was one of 48 rookies named to the Indiana State Police...
When his uncle died, Stoyan went to Montana as water boy to a railroad construction gang. He and a friend made the 1,500-mile trip in dilapidated boxcars outfitted as bunkhouses, which whipped over the tracks like a snake, threatening momentarily to fall to pieces. But the Balkan occupants had no qualms at all. If the Chewtobaccos, the big bosses, said they were safe, they must be safe. Their faith in democracy was often demonstrated just as literally. Because a giant worker heard that workers were equal with the rich, he carried a mattress, white sheets, wore silk pajamas...