Word: journey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thanks largely to the homilists, simple human goodness is out of style. To modern eyes it appears too simple to be good, too good to be true. Novelist Sherriff, better known as the playwright of Journey's End, thinks differently. His book goes to show that simple human goodness has its practically seamless sides...
...motored out over dirt roads bordered with Spanish moss to see the Magnolia and Middleton Place Gardens, lush and lovely in early Southern spring. Back in Charleston the First Lady boarded the Department of Commerce's inspection boat Sequoia to cruise Florida waters. Mrs. Hoover's journey was saddened when she learned that Mrs. Howard E. Coffin, her good friend whom she was planning to visit at Sapeloe Island, had died of heart disease...
...cartographers' eyes was the great desert Rub' al Khali, "empty quarter" of Arabia. After skirting its southern fringe for more than two months, on Jan. 10, 1931, Explorer Thomas and 13 Arabs made tracks across; on Feb. 4 they emerged at Doha, on the Persian Gulf. The journey emptied geography of ignorance, emptied also any hopes of discovering a better world on Planet Earth. The cartographical blind spot had been filled in with 600 miles of burning sand. An "unprecedented suspension of blood feuds" among the Arabs, due to Bin Sa'ud's benign but determined...
...Education, if it is to mean anything, must equip the student with a foundation upon which he can build the edifice of his life. This can only be accomplished by a sound, careful study of a few facts, an analysis of certain principles. It cannot be gained by a journey, which must perforce be cursory, through the byways of a whole civilization. The difference between the formal education which the report eschews and the "liberal education" which it offers is that while one attempts to furnish a few tools with which to build, the other tries to construct a complete...
Sixty members of the Harvard Glee Club will journey to Plymouth tomorrow evening to sing in a joint concert with the Plymouth Men's Glee Club. The performance will be held in the Plymouth Memorial Building at 8.15 o'clock. This will be the last public concert of the Glee Club before a series of performances of unusual character...