Word: walks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the rumor of the outbreak of the World War reached him, he was in the Canadian Rockies, so far removed from civilization that he was forced to walk two hundred miles to the nearest enlisting station in order to sign up. He was immediately sent to Flanders, where he served with great distinction, and received his commission as colonel. As soon as peace was declared he returned to his life in the west, which he has now abandoned for a time in order to take up the lecture platform. His services have proved invaluable to the Bureau of Commercial...
...They are proposing to open another avenue through which members of Congress, the House and the Senate, shall walk as messenger boys of the Republic, hat in hand, asking as a favor that which they have now the power to take as a right...
...pique, last week, he announced that he would run the distance in 9 minutes fiat. William Plant, U.S. walker, again defeated Ugo Frigerio, Italian Olympic champion, breaking by 1 1-5 seconds, his own world's record. (12 min. 54 sec.) for the 3,000 metre walk. In the polevault, Laddie (E. E.) Meyers jumped 12 feet 10 5-8 inches, bettering his world's record of 12 ft. 81-4 in. made...
...Finnish magazine, Tyolaisur heilijan Joulu, appeared an article by Paavo Nurmi which said: ". . . How lonesome I felt in my youth when I was ordered to walk to church each Sunday with my father, while other boys had their chance to play outdoors to their hearts' content...
...whilom secretary did contemplate restraining them, and they are sometimes worn that way in the merchant service, but they are not turned up at the bottoms. Now these offending bags are turnd up and there by rendered sloppier. Thus the analogy falls, the argument crumbles and wide pants walk in sackcloth and ashes. --Boston Transcript