Word: homewards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Homeward-bound on his yacht from South America, where he and his wife have been exploring the Orinoco River. John Hays Hammond...
...interesting exhibits) the Concord Battle Ground, and Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Here are buried Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and the Alcotts. Through the courtesy of Mrs. Sarah Ripley Ames the party will be shown through the Old Manse, a house not regularly open for visitors. At the beginning of the trip homeward there is an opportunity to see Lake Walden. The tickets for this excursion include transportation dinner and all admissions...
...Elisha Lee, and a staff of high executives, he was halfway through his annual survey tour of North America. Routing his private car on a great swing down through the Southwest to Mexico City and up the Pacific Coast where he was last week, he had planned to swing homeward through Canada. Then came his country's call for counsel and advice, and almost simultaneously an advance copy of the report of the National Transportation Committee...
...with nostalgic appreciation, marvelling open-mouthed at Van Orman's description of his instruments that sound a buzzer and flash a red light when the altitude of his balloon begins to fluctuate. Lieut.-Commander Settle, a mathematically-minded engineer who inspects the construction of Navy dirigibles, described their homeward voyage on the Graf in precise, unimaginative terms. But Van Orman's gaunt face brightened, his eyes shone as he exclaimed: "Never have I had such a thrill as when I went aboard that ship! After being knocked about by thunderstorms in the most primitive craft that flies-then...
...started homeward last November. At one time they "had only one oogiuk [sea lion] skin for ourselves and the dogs for two days. But the main trouble was water. If we hadn't let our beards grow, we would have been dead men. That is the way we got water-just sucked the icicles we broke off our beards. I learned that trick from an Eskimo on Banks Island...