Word: sands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fast Tank. The Army sent a wicked-looking military contraption charging over a rough Maryland field and among sand dunes at 42 m. p. h. It was the newest thing in combat tanks. Powered by a 12-cylinder Liberty motor, it rushed 62 m. p. h. down a road on eight hard-rubber tires. In 14 minutes it was converted into a caterpillar tractor, ready to hurtle its ten tons, its three-man crew, its full armament, cross-country nearly four times as fast as any tank similarly armored had moved before...
Devotees of Just So Stories are familiar with Yellow-Dog Dingo and his fabled speed. The dingo or warrigal (Canis dingo) is a stocky sand-colored wild dog, in size half way between a jackal and a wolf. Peculiar to Australia, so ancient is the dingo breed that its fossilized bones are found intermingled with those of the extinct giant kangaroo and giant wombat. Bitter are the scientific disputes whether the dingo is really indigenous to Australia or whether it was brought there by prehistoric man from Malaya. More important than academic wrangles is the problem of recently imported Alsatian...
Mightiest of Fair structures will be the Hall of Science building. An enormous children's village will be built, as children themselves might build it, with such necessities as huge sand piles and a good place to roller-skate...
Second Suit. New York City deposits its rubbish, its refuse, its garbage in the Atlantic Ocean, most of which eventually reaches New Jersey's shoals, white-sand beaches. New Jersey would prevent New York from so littering its bathing grounds...
...Aviv, last week, celebrated not only the Passover but also its own 20th birthday. First city of the Zionists, founded on the sand dunes outside of Jaffa, Tel Aviv now resembles a small California town. Two-storied stucco houses line its shrubbed avenues. It has its own theatre, its opera house, about 50 schools. Its population verges on 50,000. Nothing but Hebrew is spoken in Tel Aviv...