Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This most professional drive was executed by having Rightist General Garcia Escamez hotly engage a large Leftist defending force in frontal attack, while Rightist Generals Garcia Valino and Aranda swept around the Leftists' wings, met behind them and then swept on toward the Mediterranean in a 16-mile-wide offensive. Twenty miles of coast, from the outskirts of San Carlos de la Rápita to Peñiscola were in Rightist hands by week...
...Conceived as a strategic railway, to enable the Iranians to repulse possible British invasion from the Persian Gulf, Russian invasion from the Turkomen Soviet Socialist Republic, the railroad line carefully avoids all Iran's big cities except Teheran, skirts round the Empire's more fertile districts, spans wide rivers, crosses mountain passes as high as 7,200 feet, bores into numerous tunnels, connects with no foreign lines. Foreign engineers, not interested in strategy, chuckled that the railway goes from "nowhere to nowhere." This spring Scandinavian engineers were doubling shifts to finish before autumn a 200-mile...
Last week the Detroit press discovered a child prodigy. Youngest of a Detroit musician's three children, wide-eyed, curly-haired George Washington Lovett, 4½, has an uncanny memory. He can sing or hum 3,000 pieces of music from popular tunes to grand opera, can name and date all the U. S. Presidents, bound every European country, tell the population of every large city in the world, names and distances from the earth of all the planets, the political effects of Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown. the batting averages of all the baseball stars. He has also...
Almost as Mr. Broun spoke, in San Francisco, only metropolis where all daily newspapers have a city-wide Guild contract, publishers abruptly ended prolonged negotiations for a new contract. Having gained important wage & hour concessions, the Guild voted 243-to-22 to accept a new agreement shorn of "Guild shop" and "preferential hiring of Guildsmen" clauses. Meanwhile, in Duluth, the Ridder Bros, papers (Herald and News-Tribune) completed their first week of suspension, with printers refusing to go through a Guild picket line. The Guildsmen. 93 in all, struck when the publishers turned down a 24-hour demand to accept...
...Bolles was reluctant to give out the time of the race--"they'll be gunning for us anyway," he said. But there was a wide, satisfied grin on his face as he admitted that the time was excellent for this early in the season. He did admit that it was "near" the best time made by the crew all last year over the course...