Word: journey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strange, sensational disappearance & reappearance of Raymond Robins, Hoover friend (TIME, Feb. 27 et ante*), came to mind when Professor Lloyd Hiram Ziegler of Albany Medical College discoursed on "hysterical fugue." During an attack of fugue, explained Professor Ziegler, "the patient leaves his home and makes an excursion or journey justified by no reasonable motive. The attack ended, the subject unexpectedly finds himself on an unknown road or in a strange town," as Col. Robins did in Whittier, N. C. A victim does not deliberately pretend or lie about his misadventures. They may be for him an unconscious effort to escape...
...your June 5 issue under Transportation, subhead "Green Ball," you state that Philadelphia & Western's streamlined railway equipment operates at 50 m.p.h. These cars were designed for speeds of 80 m.p.h. on level tangent track and have actually been clocked at 88 m.p.h. They make the 14-mi. journey between terminals at Philadelphia and Norristown in 16 minutes including one stop and two slowdowns en route...
...should be able to make no m.p.h., Union Pacific will not permit it to exceed 90 m.p.h.. which is 10 to 20 m.p.h. faster than other U. S. expresses operate. The new train may make the long run between Omaha and Los Angeles in 30 hr. The steam journey now takes 48 hr. Speed, Union Pacific men hope, will provide effective competition against air travel. Cheap operating costs may beat bus transportation...
Presenting a completely revamped lineup and batting order, the Varsity nine will journey to Hanover today to face the formidable Dartmouth aggregation this afternoon, in what is unquestionably the most crucial engagement of the season. As both the Varsity and Dartmouth are members of the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League and since Columbia, the League leader, which is one-half a game ahead of Harvard, will engage in no league contests this week, a win today for the visitors will regain the League leadership for the Crimson. If the Varsity, however, is downed by Dartmouth, its chances of recapturing first place...
...Relations Committee speaking his mind on the iniquities of European diplomacy. He shot big round holes in the Versailles Treaty and quoted private conversations in Paris to make them bigger. He released his report on Russia and became a U. S. headline character. Mr. Lloyd George referred to "a journey some boys were reported to have made to Russia" and flayed the Bullitt report as a "tissue of lies." The net result of Diplomat Bullitt's activities was to furnish Republican Senators additional ammunition with which to de feat ratification of the peace treaty. But for speaking his mind...