Word: mins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flying Developments. That first flight was over only 120 feet of ground and lasted only 12 seconds. During the 25 years since then various planes have crossed the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic Oceans. They have risen to 38,418 ft., stayed in the air 65 hrs. 25 min., traveled 4,466 miles without alighting, sped 319 m. p. h. They have crossed North America from the Pacific to the Atlantic in 18 hr. 58 min., from the Atlantic to the Pacific in 24 hr. 51 min...
Under the Tokugawas men in trade (hei-min) were classed in the lowest social order?lowest even than actor. Respectfully submit your "rubber tycoon" or your "baseball tycoon" reads very amusing to Japanese ears...
...Chicago, 14 teams in a six-day bicycle race rode 29 miles in the first hour. In Wilkes-Barre, Pa., one Tony Chico pedalled a bicycle without stopping for 27 hrs., 25½ min...
...Graf Zeppelin, now Germany's most famed airship, on her return flight from the U. S. to Germany, covered the 4,500 miles in 71 hr., 12 min. That was 10 hours faster than any of the four other trans-Atlantic airship trips. The record...
...canna quite mak' oot what TIME is tryin' tae bring tae its readers by the "gaping" in that literary gem. I was born and brocht up ("raised" we say oot here) among the Ayrshire yokels, an' I dinna min' seein' them gap much, except when they might be tryin' tae read a newsmagazine as dull as TIME. No that ony siccan drivel was produced in Ayrshire, but there bein' nae censorship on dullness, some yawn-provokers frae the ootside at times got on tae the newsstaunds, an' were whyles bocht by chaps...