Word: pacificâ
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Under a late April sun, three green athletic fields belted by black cinder tracks marked off with whitewashed lines?one field on the Atlantic seaboard, one in the Midwest, one near the Pacific???teemed one afternoon last week with running, jumping, lunging figures in short white pants and varicolored track shirts. At the Penn relays in Philadelphia, the Drake relays in Des Moines, the West Coast relays in Fresno, U. S. athletes had, thrice equalled one world's record, and broken...
...total of 17 President boats sail the Pacific???seven owned and operated by the Dollars, five owned by the U. S. and operated, as the Admiral-Oriental Line, by the Dollars, five owned by the U. S. and operated by the Pacific Mail. (Six sail the Atlantic, four north and south, two east and west...
...Minna, to all hostile critics. His disposition was tempestuous, overbearing; he never paid his bills; not merely asked, but demanded loans of his friends as a condition of continued friendship; was enraged at Minna for her imbecilic protests at his open amours; indignantly resented any interference? even the most pacific???from the husband or family of any lady who chanced to be the object of his rather various affections. A boorish, choleric, tactless, amorous gentlemen was this Wagner, improvident and insolent, luxurious and sensual, incorrigibly sure of himself and of his mission, totally oblivious to the unhappiness he brought...