Word: miles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clear weather, after 18 days of intermittent rains, last week enabled Rightist Generalissimo Franco to begin a drive to flatten out the 600 square-mile, cup-like Leftist salient in his central Aragón front lines. This runs from Teruel to the sea. 85 miles away. Some 10,000 Leftists holding the cup were in grave danger of being trapped as Franco forces, behind a punishing artillery barrage and air attack, rolled forward on both sides of the salient. After three days the Leftists backed out, allowed Franco to straighten his lines, which now parallel the vital inland Allepuz...
...chilly May midnight long after the hour when they usually go to bed, thousands of good Dutchmen packed Rotterdam's quays. The well-to-do in their American automobiles - with headlights glaring and horns shrieking-formed a traffic jam for a mile along the River Maas. The middle-to-do on bicycles pedaled vigorously along in their own continuous stream of traffic. The little-to-do on foot crowded the quays, staring into the beam of a great searchlight. Broad Dutch faces beamed, deep Dutch shouts rose louder than the shrieking horns. For slowly, a great new ship, floodlit...
...glassy Bayou Barataria last week, 70 of these homemade vessels lined up for the third annual four-mile race to determine the No. 1 piroguer of the U. S. Favorite with the 5,000 spectators who gathered under the ancient, moss draped oaks was 19-year-old Adam Billiot, winner...
...heard the starting bomb, jumped into a five-yard lead, zoomed past the fishermen's huts along the banks, crossed the finish line first, amid piercing pirogue yells of "Ay-la-baaa." But the first prize of $200 was not for Adam Billiot. After finishing his four-mile sprint he discovered that the bomb that sent him off was a prankster's firecracker...
...Pont colt had suddenly started to flash past the horses in front of him as though they were telegraph poles. He overtook them one by one, splashing mud in their blinkered faces, finished seven lengths in front of the tired crop of three-year-olds who found the mile-and-three-sixteenths too long a distance...