Word: journey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Lamar was highly enthusiastic about the whole tournament and remarked. "We had the best-looking boys fighting here tonight we've ever had in a University journey." Referee Johnny Brassil, eratwhile arbiter of many of Jack Sharkey's matches said that last night's bouis were the best he had ever seen here, "and they've had Yale here fool...
...kiss this most sacred of all objects, the Black Stone. On camel, burro, foot and occasionally hands & knees, some 70,000 devotees annually make the hajj over the desert sands to Mecca. Last week, fat, wealthy Mussulmen loath to subject themselves to such a hot, dusty, brigand-infested journey had for the first time a better means of travel. From Cairo, Misr Airwork of Egypt inaugurated a special service for pilgrims, flying up the Nile to Aswan, thence across the Red Sea to Jidda and on into the interior to isolated Mecca. Fare...
...streamline trains. Some 57 ft. long, its desert car consists of a shiny, Diesel-powered tractor to which is coupled a 36-ft. trailer shaped much like the observation car on Budd streamline trains. Operated by Nairn Transport Co., the new busses, of which there are two, make the journey in 15 hours instead of the 24 it took the heavy, conventional busses Nairn has been shuttling across the desert for 14 years. A passenger boards the bus late in the afternoon, takes a seat in a modern interior designed like a standard Pullman. Until nightfall he watches the flat...
...first time in several years, Crimson trackmen will journey to New York this weekend to compete in the annual Millrose A.A. games to be held tomorrow night in the Madison Square Garden. Representing Harvard in the triangular one mile relay with Yale and Princeton will be Frank Leary, Tudor Richards, Al Hanion, and Bill O'Connor. Captain Bill Schmidt, who placed third last week in the K. of C. Meet of Boston, will enter the 60 yard invitation high hurdles and seek to better his last excellent performance...
...other contests scheduled for the weekend, the Freshman basketball team will play the Governor Dummer five at South Byfield, the 1940 hockey outfit will face Milton Academy at Milton, the Freshman swimming team will swim the Andover mermen at Andover and the Yardling trackmen will also journey to Andover. The Varsity malletmen will cross sticks with the Army poloists at West Point...