Word: journey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been by rail on either the Orient Express or the Simplon Orient. The Orient goes through Germany and the Simplon through Italy. Zog first arranged to travel by Soviet steamer from Istanbul direct to Marseille, stopping only at Peiraeus, Greece, and Alexandria, Egypt. Normal route of such a journey, however, is through the Strait of Messina, on one side of which is the toe of the Italian boot, on the other Sicily. Both are uncomfortably close...
...rhymes with Hoo) at 40 makes her first U. S. bow with The Long Dream. As befits the country that originated the langlauf (long-distance ski race), her novel is slow in starting, spends nearly half its length on the heroine's retrospective thoughts during a train journey back to her native town after seven years' absence...
...Battery. Governor Lehman and Mayor LaGuardia got in behind them in a big Cadillac, squired them under prodigious police escort up the West Side express highway (chosen over the Mayor's protest, instead of Broadway-Fifth Avenue because it was easier to patrol) in a triumphal journey much less uproarious than Charles Lindbergh's ticker-tape blizzard (see p. 20). Grover Whalen, resplendent in a flowing stock, received them at his Fair, where they were tootled around in a trackless motor train. Their own Empire's exhibits, including a copy of the Magna Charta, were their chief...
Harvard has 16 categories of teachers. President Conant's committee found that only one beginning instructor in 20 gets permanent appointment as an associate or full professor. Average time for the journey: 16 years; average age on arrival: 39. The committee proposed that the number of teachers' categories be reduced from 16 to six (including visiting lecturers), that the trial period be cut from 16 to eight years. Salaries, now varying widely in each category, will be made uniform: $1,200 for teaching fellows (graduate students); $2,500 for annual instructors; $2,750 to $3,300 (rising...
...CRIMSON tennis team will journey to Pine Manor this week to seek its annual victory from the Wellesley racquet wielders. The Pine Manor aggregation is headed by Tillie Alston and Peggy Carpenter, ranking court stars, while the CRIMSON forces will be featured by a smashing Bronxville-Minneapolis combination. Pre-game odds establish the local boys as strong favorites...