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...scientific aeronautics, Amundsen and Davison will explore 1,000,000 square miles of territory, and gather information as to the possibilities of commercial flying across the Polar regions-which may ultimately furnish the shortest route between the three continents of America, Europe and Asia. The Dornier plane has a radius of action of 1,300 miles; Spitzbergen is 500 miles from the Pole, but over 1,700 miles from Point Barrow. The explorers will, therefore, make several seven-hour trips from Norway to the Pole, and make a cache there of fuel and supplies, for the last dash across...
Radcliffe (Miss Eva Washburn) and Bryn Mawr (Miss Constance Appleby), "tolerate games with schools and colleges within a radius of 25 miles...
...Dixmude, originally known as the L-72, was completed at the great airship works at Friedrichshafen, Germany, at the signing of the armistice. It had a cruising radius of 9,500 miles, a tank capacity of 11,000 gallons. Turned over to the French by the terms of the armistice, it was the pride of the French Air Service and held the world's duration and range record (TIME...
...hockey and also the triangular track meet with Dartmouth and Cornell. Application blanks may be obtained at the H. A. A. The official calendar of athletic activities for the winter term has also been published and mailed to all graduates on the application list within a fifty-mile radius of Boston. It is available to undergraduates at the H. A. A. and Leavitt and Pierce...
Paris and vicinity within 60 miles absorb half the circulation, so that even as a metropolitan paper it is twice the size of an American daily. Within this radius the papers are distributed by small cars and cyclists to thousands of cafés. These cafés, opening early in the morning, make their profit by feeding the news agents and news vendors who come for their supply of Petit Parisiens. A corps of 15 super-inspectors and 60 district chiefs is on the move from dawn till sunset to keep the circulation booming in every quarter of Paris...