Word: journey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back came Mr. Dubinsky: "Eliza crossing the ice may not have had a very pleasant journey but, as I recall, she had to make that trip getting away from a none-too-kind overseer...
...even a modicum of safety, or a minimum of alacrity, so essential in these days when time-saying becomes all important, the student is forced to place one foot in front of another with extreme deliberation, and like a tight-rope walker, proceed at snail's pace. If the journey be from Dunster House to Widener Library, perhaps ten minutes will be wasted instead of five...
Victor over the ten Harvard Undergraduate "Indians" who staged an "attack" early in its journey, the Caravan has evidently met its match in the elements. Scheduled to arrive in Marietta, Ohio, on April 7, it has failed to reply to all telegraphic and telephone messages...
Although Morgan has been the subject of many a scientific memoir, U. S. readers got their first intimate glimpse of him last week, when Professor Leslie A. White edited a 174-page, paperbound volume of extracts from a journal that Morgan kept on a European journey in 1870-71. A good introduction, it traces the grand tour he took with his wife & son to Edinburgh, Rome, Berlin and Paris. It shows him as a good-natured, hard-headed patriot, as provincial as General Grant, gawking at every cathedral, castle, museum and picture gallery. But it shows him also...
After his death in 1901, a brief, old-fashioned travel diary was found among Bishop Whipple's papers. When he was 21, ill-health had driven him South for the winter, on a long, tedious, weakening journey. He went from New York to Savannah on a first-class merchantman, from Savannah to St. Augustine by steamer, across Georgia "on the worst railroad ever invented," by river boat from New Orleans to St. Louis, up the Ohio on the crowded, dirty Goddess of Liberty ("anything but a goddess," wrote young Whipple sourly). by stage ("far pleasanter than on a rail...