Word: journey
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Coolidge described his journey into East Africa via Nairobi to Kijabe, where he set out across a waterless desert with a train of bullock wagons to the Wandorobo river. This was the only method of crossing this stretch, for the bullocks were able to travel several days without water. Among the game he shot and photographed were lions, leopards, bush cats, cheetahs, ostriches, and rhinos...
Yesterday afternoon a 0 to 0 game was played with Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge. The All-Star players were somewhat handicapped by their long journey, and a strong wind interfered with accurate kicking. This game was the last before the All-Stars return north...
...Universities on December 28. The players will then go to New Orleans by boat, and play a game with a team of players and graduates of Louisiana State University on December 31. The return to New York will be made via Atlanta on January 2. The expenses of the journey will be covered by a guaranteed percentage of the gate-receipts...
...around the Stadium and the underdraining of about seven acres of land on Soldiers Field. Cold and rainy weather is chiefly responsible for the decrease in baseball receipts, but the decrease in expenses was brought about by the more careful management of trips and the omission of the tiresome journey to Cornell. The fact that four undergraduate races are now rowed at New London accounts for the increased expenses of the crew...
...many of these New Year's is a day of greater celebration than in Christmas. * * * At the present day the Harvard student finds on reaching home that his fellows from other colleges are already there, and when he starts back, losing, if he lives more than twenty-four hours journey from Cambridge, his New Year festivities, he leaves them rejoicing and mocking behind him. The hardship at the beginning is mitigated for the individual by the practice (authorized by the Faculty in 1877) of giving such additional leave of absence to students as shall enable them to reach home...