Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Holy Land trembled and was shaken last week from Jerusalem to Jericho (13 miles) and very largely along the banks of Jordan. Outside the quake area were Bethlehem and the Dead Sea on the South; and Nazareth and the Sea of Galilee in the North. Between these two seas (65 miles apart), an area roughly 55 miles in diameter trembled. Killed were some 670 persons?not one of these reputedly a U. S. citizen or Jew. Injured were more than 3,000 natives and a few scattered Occidentals. Property damage, hasty appraisers said, exceeded...
...Regions bounding Persia are (in clockwise order) ; the Republic of Turkey; the Socialist Soviet Republic of Armenia; the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic; the Caspian Sea; the Socialist Soviet Republic of Turkmenistan ("Turkestan") ; the Amirate of Afghanistan ; the Kalat State of Anglo-Indian Baluchistan; the Gulf of Oman ; the Persian Gulf and (completing the clockwise circle) the Kingdom of Irak, a British mandate...
...there was good reason for Mr. Stevens to talk about the Panama Canal. Last winter he quietly went down to Panama to see how the big ditch looked after 20 years. His talk was his first publication of his impressions, which were, chiefly, that a $500,000,000 sea-level canal through Nicaragua, as some propose, will not be needed to supplement the Panama Canal, because: 1) water shortage in the Panama locks, which might threaten if the traffic increases much more, can be averted by building an $8,000,000 dam to store flood waters on the Chagres River...
...four years before Guglielmo Marconi took out patents in Britain-Nikola Tesla patented in the U. S. a system of wireless transmission. A scarehead newspaper heard his prophecy that soon ships at sea would call electrically for help, to other ships or shore stations, without having any wired connection. The scarehead editor, well aware of his sheet's reputation, said: "We could not afford to print such a piece of inventive lunacy...
...Denver is the Super-Optimist, I'll tell the world. . . . Denver is ten miles high in hospitality. You can't tell me it is only 5,280 feet above sea level."?Thomas B. Elliott of St. Louis, international secretary-treasurer...