Word: journey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lakehurst a further difficulty arose. So much fuel had been burnt on the journey that the ship was very light. The ballast recovery apparatus installed on one engine compensated only in small part for the loss of fuel weight, and in three attempts at mooring, the drag ropes swung high above the ground crew. Finally Commander Lansdowne had to reconcile himself to "valving" the helium and allowing some 20,000 feet of the precious gas to escape at an estimated cost...
...crew was large enough to work in two shifts, and though the Commander himself had but one hour's sleep, every one else arrived in perfect condition, with the ship working admirably right up to the end of the journey...
...Haven on November 8. The other two trips are to be made on the same day, October 18, when one Freshman football team will leave for Merceraburg, Pa, to meet Mercereburg, Academy; and another to Hightetown, N. J., to play the Peddie School. The Dartmouth Freshmen will also journey from Hanover, N. H. to play the Princeton Freshmen...
James Lucey, shoemaker friend of Calvin Coolidge: "It was reported that I will journey from Northampton, Mass., to Cleveland to report the Republican National Convention for the Newspaper Enterprise Association...
...accompanied by Managers Bickford and Whithouse, and several old Harvard track stars who are now members of the Track Advisory Committee, among whom are W. J. Bingham and W. A. Barron, both former Harvard track captains. The whole group will spend the night in the hotel at Trenton, and journey to Princeton early tomorrow morning...