Word: vias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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False Weight? Although crimination and recrimination moved hot and quick last week, between U. S. and British delegates, via the press, no charge made was uglier than this: that the British Admiralty systematically lists its war boats at about five-sixths of their real tonnage, according to U. S. measurements...
...Via Orazio 30 Roma, Italy...
Clairenore Stinnes (German steel heiress, daughter of the late Hugo Stinnes) roared out of Frankfurt Germany, at the steering wheel of her specially built Adler automobile with two wirehaired fox terriors. She was headed for Constantinople, via the Balkans-the first leg of a proposed motor trip around the world. In a second car went a chauffeur, a camera man. Last year Fraulein Stinnes won the women's reliability tour (500 miles) of South Germany. Asked if she had no fear of the wilds of Persia, Turkestan, Mongolia, China, North America, she replied: Not the slightest. I shall...
...feet of water. Sick at heart, Commander de Pinedo cabled Premier Mussolini for another plane in which to carry on, for the glory of Fascismo, his four-continent itinerary, of which there remained to be completed a flight to the Pacific coast and up it to Seattle, thence east via Chicago, New York, Boston, Newfoundland and the Azores to Rome. Word came back that an identical ship would reach New York late this month, ready...
...Mount Washington Athletic Club, and on the next afternoon the University, will meet the club team, which is one of the best in the south. That evening the team will be entertained with a dinner and dance at the club. They will return on the Sunday morning train via the Hell Gate...