Word: journey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then a bus line was put through to Keu Kong, and young Fung Kwok-keung took to hanging around the bus depot, developed a vast interest in things mechanical. Mechanics made him think of America. So he let the elder Fung know and his journey to the U. S. was arranged. Hounded by reporters from the time he docked in Vancouver until he stepped off a train in Manhattan, Fung Kwok-keung, unable to speak a word of English, threw himself weeping into his father's arms...
...habitable land is chiefly a cobra-shaped ribbon stretching along the Nile from the broad delta at Alexandria to the narrow rocky cataracts of the Sudan border. Along that green cobra live 16,000,000 people, of whom 2,000,000 last week took advantage of fare reductions to journey to Cairo by train, steamer, felucca, autobus, camel and donkey. They went to celebrate the wedding of Farouk, their 18-year-old king, to Farida, meaning "unique," his 17-year-old Queen...
...scrapped. Sole passenger will be an auctioneer, housed in the Imperial Suite, listing her furnishings for public sale. Costing, with repairs and rebuilding, over $30,000,000, the Leviathan was sold to Sheffield and Glasgow metal firms for $732,000, plus an estimated $40,000 for the journey to the scrap yard. At the helm of a big ship for the last time, Captain Binks lamented: "I know ships of her type do not pay these days, with such vessels as the Normandie and the Queen Mary and other new ships. But I do feel sad to realize their...
...Danube basin. The recent tour of Danube states and Poland by French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos (TIME, Dec. 20, et seq.) was followed immediately by the setting up in Rumania of a pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic regime unfriendly to France. When Premier Stoyadinovich sounded off, the Delbos journey appeared to have been almost a total loss. However, M. Delbos' worries were at the moment closer home. His Government had fallen...
...continues on his journey, to amuse himself he thinks aloud of the personalities and events which each landmark brings to his mind. Occasionally his thoughts are poetry, other times merely the smooth flowing, refreshing prose for which he has become known to such a wide range of readers. Every subject from philosophy to the sports of the English countryside are the topics of his thought...