Word: en
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from practice, lies dozing beside the pool until called upon to swim. Like Miss McKean, he learned young, in Seattle's Green Lake. Last week, with Al Vande Weghe, 17-year-old Paterson, N. J. backstroke star, and Art Highland of Northwestern University, he was en route to Tokyo to enter the Japanese National Championships this month against the little yellow men who won almost every important swimming event in the 1932 Olympic Games...
...pull TIME's leg, or had had his pulled so realistically that he actually believed such deliveries take place. The impossibility of such a thing is seen upon analysis. Mr. Stiver states that there were no copies [of TIME] in Seattle, as none had been printed while he was en route from Chicago. That being the case, how could copies not printed at the time sail ahead of him, presumably on one of the C.P.R. ships, be dumped off in the north Pacific, and be awaiting the arrival of the President Cleveland? I am truly curious. I have sailed that...
...flock was hardly out of Paris last week when many among them began to munch bananas, eggs, chocolate, harlequins which they produced from the pockets of their sleeveless sweaters. At meal stops they are handed knapsacks of food & drink to consume en route. The Tour de France is marked by few grisly spills such as punctuate the Madison Square Garden grinds. As a rule the riders bowl along in a good-humored cluster, sprint near the end of the run for the daily prize money. On the windy seacoasts they take turns riding on the windward side of the pack...
...owner's wife and child; Ch'en's attempted murder; the crowded lines of wounded Communists lying in the station, waiting to be taken out and shot. Man's Fate is not a pleasant book but few readers will soon forget their encounter with it. The Author, at 32, is already acknowledged as a front-rank European writer. Son of a French civil servant, he went to Indo-China at 20. made an archaeological expedition to Cambodia and Siam, was not only an eyewitness of some of China's bloodiest revolutionary years...
...En route he stopped at Father Daniel Routhier's. Father Routhier hurried over to sprinkle and cross the quintuplets officially...