Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Six months later, come boom, come depression, the Dankowskes chugged through all 48 States, Canada, parts of Mexico.
Latest to learn this lesson of modern geography is exiled King Zog, whose kingdom of Albania was seized by the Italians last April. Having spent most of the time since his flight from Albania at Istanbul, Turkey, Zog recently decided to transfer his home to France. Shortest and quickest route...
High in the Pyrenees is a series of interconnecting blind valleys that constitute the State of Andorra. Because this little (191 square miles) pocket in the mountains between France and Spain has no strategic or economic importance it remains a feudal relic. The 5,200 Catalan-speaking citizens make a...
Sailing for Scotland on his annual grouse-shooting junket, cob-nosed John Pierpont Morgan groused: "If they start war, certainly my shooting will be interrupted, because everybody would rush off to do what they'd have to do and I wouldn't have anybody with me." Also sailing...
After searching through his violent, labyrinthine books, the family of late Novelist Thomas Wolfe culled an epitaph for his Asheville, N. C. tombstone from his posthumous novel The Web and the Rock: "Death bent to touch his chosen son with mercy, love and pity, and put the seal of honor...