Word: ens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, their work done, the U. S. members of the Joint Investigating Committee were en route back to Washington where their Philippine colleagues will join them presently to prepare a report which President Roosevelt should receive by next January. Meanwhile, in Manila last week, a few days before a typhoon caused an estimated $4,000,000 worth of damage on nearby islands, Shadow Boxer Quezon stepped through two characteristically fast rounds against his own plan for advancing the date of independence...
...story was told by a man whose veracity is unquestionable. He told me a fellow employee saw two men, one of them a youth, fighting. The witness was en route from work and didn't stop, thinking it only a drunken brawl. I am going to talk to the man late today and think there may be a definite break in the case...
...reckoning the rail cost, meals en route and tips at journey's end are not included, TWA carries passengers from Los Angeles to New York in 16 hours, provides free meals en route and no tips are necessary; by rail in standard trains the journey takes about 77 hours and generally requires some $10 extra for meals, $2 in tips...
Rowdyism. In an Oxford restaurant, a typical evening's fun begins with throwing of bread pellets, proceeds to butter pats, poulet en casserole, a huge chunk of smoked salmon, and ends with undergraduates pulling table legs from the tops. "When I was last in one of these restaurants the majority of the women present had enveloped themselves as far as possible in napkins and tablecloths...
...En route to a Los Angeles exhibition match against Ellsworth Vines, Amateur Champion Tennist Donald Budge fell asleep at the wheel of his auto, ten miles north of Bakersfield, Calif. The car bumped off the road, careened across a five-foot ditch, turned over three times, came to rest on the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks. Tennist Budge clambered out of the wreck with a few cuts on his face and bruises on his ribs, flagged a motorist to take him to Bakersfield...