Word: journey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diminish. And there are books whose progress toward a place in the ranks of acknowledged greatness is as gradual and irresistible as the advance of a glacier. Travels in Arabia Deserta* (first published in 1888) belongs in this last rare class. One recognizes that, if any tale of a journey in modern times may stand beside the tale of the wanderings of Ulysses, it is this...
...after ten years of preparation, Charles Montagu Doughty, poor, not in the best of health, alone, began a journey through the desert portions of Arabia that was to last two years, bring him into contact with tribes hostile to Europeans, subject him to the rigors of a life as severe and comfortless as that of an eremite. Solitude, the blinding heat of the desert, thirst, hunger, every weariness of the flesh he endured. Moreover, he did not attempt to pass among the Arabs in any disguise, but, wherever he went, bluntly proclaimed himself an Englishman and a Christian. Supporting himself...
...basis of this confidence lies in the fact that in Captain Coburn, Cutcheon, Watters, and Chapin the University has four men of exceptional scoring ability, who are at their best on a flat course and the journey through Van Cortlandt Park, although covering one hill twice, is essentially of the flat variety. The course at New Haven, where Yale nosed out the University a week ago Saturday by six points is considered probably the hilliest in this part of the country, even more so than that at Hanover...
Leaving Cambridge at 1.30 o'clock this afternoon the Freshman soccer team will journey to Andover for a return game with the schoolboys. The Blue team won an easy 3-0 victory on October 17 which the 1927 men will have to strive hard to wipe...
...motor lorry loaded with Green Police, followed by a limousine, made its way through Berlin to the Reichstag. Inside the limousine was a nervous, agitated man. One hour later Green Police and limousine made the return journey. Inside the car sat a man " wreathed in smiles": Chancellor Stresemann had been made Germany's first constitutional dictator by 316 votes to 24. Thus he joins the ranks of European dictators-Mussolini of Italy, Doktor von Kahr of Bavaria, Captain-General Primo Rivera of Spain, Colonel Gonatas of Greece, Mustapha Kemal Pasha of Turkey...