Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came the flight of Lieutenants Maitland and Hegenberger (TIME, July 11). Last week Civilians Smith and Bronte fell just short of duplicating the Army airmen's feat (see p. 28). Thus almost every U. S. citizen, reasonably literate, knows that the Hawaiian Islands are some 2,400 miles west of San Francisco and are so situated as to form an excellent target for far-flying aviators...
...Chagres River; 2) the sea-level canal would be no easier to defend in war-time than the Panama locks since the narrow sea-level channel could be blocked by one sunken ship. "Routine business" over, many of the engineers left Denver for Colorado Springs and recreation. Others traveled west instead of south, to see something up in the Rockies, something which made Denver a most appropriate spot for this year's convention-an engineering project of magnitude and importance second to none in the U. S. Last fortnight, under the granite groins of the Continental Divide, workmen blasted...
...work. He never took a wife. Before he was 40 he had revolutionized power transmission machines and Lord Kelvin had said of him that he had contributed more to electrical science than any other man. He worked, as he still does, early and late at his laboratory in West 40th St., Manhattan, dining alone at the same hour, at the same table in the Waldorf...
...International Date Line runs down the 180th parallel of longitude from the North Pole almost to Wrangel Island, then slants east to pass through Bering Strait, slants west again to Long. 180° again and on down to the South Pole...
...horse, Tony, do their stuff once again, this time for the reluctant heart of a circus queen. Amongst other adventures possible in the woolly West, they break jail, lasso the girl off the back of a runaway elephant, write "I love you" into a wooden fence with bullets. The sheepish grin, buoyant acrobatics, baffled villain are on hand as usual. All in all, a good Tom Mixture...