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Word: chavornay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lacerated both my hands and the soles of my feet. Almost barefooted I went to an Italian's shop and bought myself a pair of shoes, hobnailed in mountaineer's style. I packed off, and on the next morning-Sunday, July 20-I took the train at Chavornay for Lausanne. "In Lausanne I lived carefully the first week on the money I had earned at Orbe. Then I was again hard up. On the Monday the only piece of metal I had in my pocket was a nickel medallion of Karl Marx. I had eaten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bricklayer's Autograph | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

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