Word: worldely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, Dec. 9, p. 61, under Science, you say "The deepest man-made hole in the world is in Orange County, Cal., 8,201 feet deep...
...World's largest submarine: France's Le Surcourf, with a displacement of 3,256 tons. Largest British submarine: Xl, with a displacement of 2,700 tons...
...baby (the author's husband) was born when she was nearly 43, and her hair had turned gray. When their progeny grew up and left home. Grandma and Dan'l began to go places and do things: "in '93, like everybody else," they went to the World's Fair in Chicago. But Dan'l was getting along. He had a stroke, then another; soon he was almost helpless. Grandma Brown used to wash his feet for him. "But he would say to me, 'I hate to have you wash my feet...
When the Austrians were reported to have crossed the Italian frontier in the World War, Dr. Modigliani supervised the transportation of all Northern Italian art treasures to inland and southern cities, where for the remainder of the War they safely remained...
...enterprising citizen of big projects (part owner of New York "Giants," trustee of New York State College of Forestry, director of the National Surety Company, board chairman of the County Trust Co., and president of Empire State Building Corp.), announced that the plans of the Empire State building, world's largest, tallest, on the old Waldorf-Astoria site on Fifth Avenue, would include a mooring mast as dirigible way-station, 1,300 feet above the street...