Word: journey
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...three weeks ago the President planned to take no long campaign trip, because in the present state of international affairs he "did not want to be away from his desk for more than five days," after his study of the state of political affairs with Mr. Hurja his projected journey by last week had grown twice that long. To Washington he went for three days to clean up official business. But the three days dwindled...
...little group is pressed for a means of entertainment with which to while away the hours till their journey's end is reached. They cast lots to see who shall tell a story and the obligation falls upon a gentle Knight among their company...
...raised some money, founded the Missionalium Vehiculorum Associatio or Missions-Verkchrs-Arbeitsgemeinschajt ("Missionary Communications Association"). Calling it MIVA for short, Father Schulte chose as its motto: Obmam Christo terra marique et in aera ("Toward Christ on land and sea and in the air"). In 1929 he made his first journey to the U. S. to raise more money. Finally the Pope himself gave unqualified approval...
...World War of a thousand novels from Barbusse's Under Fire to Celine's Journey to the End of the Night, is presented with unqualified horror in most, with victory or defeat equally intolerable and campaigns and assaults measured in terms of the lives they cost rather than the strategy that determined them. But the War pictured in Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and Sherston's Progress is War as it appeared to a trained and disciplined British officer, winner of the Military Cross, a poet whose mind was filled with thousands...
President Joseph F. Beech, of West China Union University, will show morning pictures of a journey from Shanghai up the Yangize River to the University in Chengiu, Szechuan Province, China, and will lecture on its activities at the Small Lecture Hall of the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, on Monday, September...