Word: journey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...List. Out this week is another notable book dealing not with one cult but with many, God Is My Adventure by Rom Landau.† A 37-year-old Pole who wrote biographies of his eminent compatriots Ignaz Paderewski and Joseph Pilsudski, Author Landau has set out on a pioneering journey through that religious shadowland which lies between piety and eccentricity, "regions of truth that the official religions and sciences are shy of exploring." Of the nine cultists he has appraised, Author Landau credits Frank Buchman with being "the most successful and shrewdest revivalist of our time." However, Author Landau finds...
...famed essay. Dispatched by President McKinley to give Cuban General Calixto García a verbal message to the effect that the U. S. was on his side in his revolt against Spain and to discover the strength of the rival armies, Rowan did so after a harrowing foot journey through the Cuban jungle...
...towering over his head the vast stern and mountainous superstructure of the greatest ship ever built in Britain, Queen Mary. When the farmer looked up from his field last week Queen Mary was gone, safe at sea after what her owners devoutly hope will be the most ticklish journey she will ever have to make...
This week the mirror starts its journey west on a special train carrying a freight-car with equipment for unloading, and a caboose. The train will travel no faster than 30 m.p.h. Since it was impossible to provide a lateral clearance of 18 ft., the mirror had to be shipped standing upright. This raised the problem of overhead clearances. After much study a route was worked out with the tightest squeeze a three-inch bridge clearance at Buffalo. The big disk goes by New York Central to Cleveland; by Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis to St. Louis; by Chicago, Burlington...
...recklessness of old age ... a new subject to investigate; a fresh circle of stimulating acquaintances with whom to discuss entirely new topics, and above all a daily joint occupation, in intimate companionship, to interest, amuse and even excite us in the last stage of life's journey...