Word: winnipegs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brigadier General William A. Mitchell has organized an air route between New York and Peking with three intermediate stops: Winnipeg, Nome and near the Amur River in Siberia. The General predicts that a passenger will be able to start from New York at three o'clock in the afternoon and land in Peking at ten o'clock in the morning of the third day. The General backs up his somewhat bold prediction by describing a number of safety devices...
Leacock and some of his cronies in Montreal. A relief, because one no longer heard talk of Sherwood Anderson or of T. S. Eliot, of this modern literary quarrel, or of that new play; but Colonel George H. Ham, another Canadian humorist, told of good old colonization days in Winnipeg and points west. Literary talk was of Mark Twain, Dickens, Meredith...
Just before the game started Earl Gray, of Winnipeg, Canada, was elected captain of the yearlings for this year. Gray has had much soccer experience, for he played for two years on the St. John's Technical team at Winnipeg, and for several more on the St. Peter's Church team in the same city...
...therefore, a different system is favor. This is the "Hare system" of P. R., otherwise called P. R. with the "single transferable vote." This system is already in use for parliamentary elections in several parts of the British dominions and for councils in several hundred English-speaking cities, including Winnipeg, Ashtabula (Ohio), and Sacramento. In November it was adopted, by popular vote, for Cleveland...