Word: embark
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rest from his labors has come to Walter Johnson (TIME, Sept. 22), aging ace of baseball pitchers. Last week, he and a partner acquired the Oakland (Calif.) club of the Pacific Coast League. In the spring Johnson will embark no more on stormy big league seas with the world's champion Washington Senators, but will pitch Oakland's three big opening games and then settle back, in the warm California sunshine, to grow old in profitable leisure...
...that mattered little to the 2500 sons of Harvard. It made no difference who was at right tackle or who at left halfback. The significant fact was that the dusky group of figures racing through signals in the center of the field was a Crimson eleven about to embark for the conquest of New Haven...
...royal couple spoke English perfectly (the Prince was educated at Eton and Oxford) ; and said they intended to visit Boston, Chicago and other places en route to San Francisco, where they are to embark for Japan, thence home. "Home is always a good place to get back to," remarked the Princess...
Anna Pavlova, aged 39, Titania of the Imperial Russian school of romantic choregraphy, is soon to embark on a farewell tour of the U. S. This in spite of the fact that her last appearances here were also farewell appearances. This time, however, it is "positively farewell," because Anna, says her manager, S. Hurok, is weary of the discomforts of travel. Consequently, a rather unexacting final circuit has been arranged. It will consist of four weeks at Covent Garden, London; three and one-half weeks at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan; then a "season" in San Francisco; finally a first...
William Kissam Vanderbilt, financier: "It was announced that I would embark on my palatial yacht, the Ara, with a party of friends, to undertake a cruise halfway round the world to study the ocean's bottom and the currents, to collect marine specimens for my museum on Long Island. It was recalled that the last yachtsman to undertake a serious oceanographic research was the late Prince Albert of Monaco, whose extensive labors were rewarded with the Agassiz gold medal of the National Academy of Science...