Word: journey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story of vicarious travel in the Far East, 26-year-old Oxonian Fleming first takes us along the outside rim of Red China, along the Trans-Siberian Express, from Moscow to Manchukuo. Fleming is immediately disarming as he announces that this is "a superficial account of an unsensational journey". His Anglo-Saxon honesty compels him to add "I dare say I could have made my half-baked conclusions on the major issue of the Far East sound convincing. But it is one thing to bore your readers and another to mislead them". Such frankness is, indeed, unusual...
...experiments will come; old customs will linger by the wayside. The college student simply closes his textbooks at the close of his short journey on an unfinished story of life with its conflict, suffering, and struggle for happiness. The pages that we learn about today will still be there, but new pages in life's experience will be added day by day. Balzac and Longfellow and Bach and Michael Angelo--these will still be on life's pages long after the texts are closed; Roosevelt and Hitler and Doumergue, too, will have filled their niche. But the world moves...
...Gascon grandfather's most significant journey was to London (TIME, July 16). There M. Barthou did more than patch up a quarrel which he had had earlier in the year at Geneva with Sir John Simon. He convinced Leader of the British Conservative (majority) Party Stanley Baldwin that the Nazi Reich is a real menace to the peace of Europe. It was after M. Barthou's visit that M. Baldwin startled the world by declaring for His Majesty's Government that the British frontier is now on the Rhine...
...America, and although Mr. Priestly may see fit to throw up his hands in holy horror at the squalor and degradation of the working classes, this is unmistakably the reaction of a gently nurtured being shuddering at its first contact with the icy waters of life. Had his "English Journey" been taken in the sweatshops of New York, or in the coal mines of Pennsylvania, or in the troubled farm lands of Arizona, the picture would have contained but few lighter nuances, and the general overtone would have been strikingly similar...
Completing the longest trip made by any Harvard sport team, the Crimson baseball nine returns next Wednesday to the shores of the United States, when it disembarks at Sun Franciso after a long journey ever the Pacific Ocean from Yokohama. It arrives here three days later...