Word: journey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bricks from the Philadelphia Mint. By next morning they had their precious load packed neatly in four mail coaches of a special nine-car train that was manned by crack machine gunners concealed behind drawn blinds. With right of way cleared, the train chuffed off on its 530-mi. journey. Several hundred yards in front of the gold train went a dummy freight train...
...Comrade Trotsky from the seacoast to the 7,000-ft. high plateau on which stands Mexico City, Lest anyone do the Great Exile a mischief El Hidalgo stopped some miles outside the capital and Mr. & Mrs. Trotsky, with six Mexican detectives permanently assigned to them, alighted to finish their journey by motor car.* This whisked them to the spacious suburban residence of fat and smoldering Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera, an ardent Trotskyist, friend of President Cardenas, and casher-in on the John D. Rockefellers (Father & Son) who in art "know what they like...
...called on Gandhi and many another of India's great and near-great. But the high point of his journey was at Trivandrum, where he met one Chidambaram Swami, who became his spiritual teacher, put him to work practising yoga in earnest. The pupil gives all the details of his training - breathing exercises, meditations, calisthenics - and observes that one of the prime necessities to spiritual advancement is a well-functioning bowel...
...high and 16 ft. across, Jelly Roll gave birth to four beaver kittens. Then the enlarged party moved on, leaving established highways at Waskesiu Lake in Prince Albert Park traveling 30 mi. by water to Ajawaan Lake, where everything was packed over a half-mile portage and the journey finished by relays with a canoe...
...SECRET JOURNEY-James Hanley -Macmillan...