Word: journey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week by the Fort Myers, Fla., Women's Community Club to publish an issue of the Tropical News. She wrote editorials: extolled Adolph Simon Ochs (New York Times), flayed handshaking as too hard on President Hoover, attacked billboards. Robert Cedric Sherriff, London insurance broker, amateur playwright of super-successful Journey's End (TIME, April 1), announced last week he was writing a play about the antarctic death (1912) of Explorer Robert Falcon Scott...
...over Bagdad, still going. Forty-eight hours out they passed over Karachi in India with still 1,170 mi. to go to their destination, Bangalore. Two hours later the great plane reappeared over Karachi and landed. Head winds had eaten up its gasoline on the last half of the journey. Had the plane carried a radio, it could have been notified of a 30 m.p.h. tailwind which was blowing on a lower level. Distance: 4,130 mi.; time: 50 hrs., 38 min. (about 300 mi. short of the non-stop Rome-to-Brazil record flight; 15 hrs. short...
...January, Robert Maynard Hutchins was 30. Last week he was made President of the University of Chicago. Going from Yale, where he is Dean of the Law School, he will duplicate and improve upon the feat of Chicago's first President, William Rainey Harper, who made the same journey for the same purpose...
...Harvard Freshman team will journey to Providence today to meet the Brown Freshmen...
...August 24 the foreign members will journey to Woods Hole, whence on the following day they will proceed to New York City. During the ensuing week they will be entertained in and around New York...