Word: journey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after a fortnight of his favorite sport, wearing new-grown mutton-chop whiskers like his late father's, the President ended his 417-mile cruise at Campobello Island, seeing his summer home for the first time since 1933. At week's end he planned to journey to Quebec for a one-day call on Canada's Governor General, Lord Tweedsmuir, then set out on a short motoring survey of New England's flood-control needs, ending at Hyde Park...
ODYSSEY OF THE ISLANDS-Carl N. Taylor-Scribner ($3). Description of a journey through rarely-traveled parts of the Philippines, illustrated by photographs. Author Taylor was killed in New Mexico last February by his house boy, a member of the Penitentes (TIME. March...
However. TIME was technically right, too, when it said that no wheel had ever rolled between North and South America. In impassable Central America Barone's journey was broken by three water hauls, the longest of which (210 miles) was from Colombia to Panama...
...mile trek to the Promised Land of Utah. As a hard working, efficient officer, finally as second in command of the Mormon army (the Nauvoo Legion), Charles Rich made a name for himself as one of the most useful Saints in Zion. After the hardships of the journey and the first starvation days in the new land, he was further upped in rank to one of the Twelve Apostles, soon became known as the canniest of the lot. When the Mormons planned to extend their empire to California, Rich was one of the two apostles they sent in charge...
Philosopher Hawkesworth argues that no one can tell where any galaxy is now because it takes millions of years for its light to reach astronomers on Earth. Astronomers cannot even locate the galaxy in respect to Earth at the time the light began its journey, since all heavenly bodies dart continuously through space, and Earth's position aeons ago is unknown. Above all, Philosopher Hawkesworth calls it absurd to plot relative positions of the galaxies, since observers can only note where they were at vastly differing times. Coming down to earth himself, he offers a simple illustration...