Word: journey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wright Whirlwind engines which had not once whimpered during the flight. Although the distance between Roosevelt Field, L. I., and Ver-sur-Mer on the coast of Normandy is 3,477 miles, yet Commander Byrd estimated that the America flew some 4,200 miles during its 42 hours' journey...
...whole round earth were a continuous, altitudinous tableland. TIME is so intense; no shading, no contrast-all scarlet red unrelieved by any restful, soft yellow or buff tints. It is like a rich full dinner with no salad or soup. To read TIME is to take an extended journey on the swift Twentieth Century Limited with no stops or layovers; no dimming of lights by night, nor shading the glowing sun by day. TIME thrills me as a sensational airplane ride, with its gyrations, its quick twists and turns and glides-nose-dive, falling leaf, swallow flight, tail spin, loop...
STARTLING in the wrong direction necessitates an immediate right about face or a long journey and a difficult one across sterile fields. Ellis Parker Butler wrote "Pigs Is Pigs", a concession to a tasteless whim, and has continued along that road of supposed humor ever since...
...direction to receive the plaudits proper to fame. The President off for his summer vacation in the Black Hills was given a column on the first page of the second section of so sedate and well-balanced a paper as the New York Times, while Colonel Lindberg in his journey up Broadway received all the space, except the unprinted margins, in the first five pages of the same issue...
Harvard will be represented at this year's Northfield Student Conference by 19 members of the University, when graduates, undergraduates, and representatives of several of the graduate schools will journey to East Northfield. The conference will be held for nine days beginning Wednesday and continuing until June 24. Some members of the Harvard delegation will be present throughout the entire conference; others will attend for only a few days...