Word: journey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sentimental journey to his old home town of Kitchener* last week, the Prime Minister shucked his dignity and reserve to show an unexpectedly mellow Mackenzie King. "Welcome Home, Billy" read the banners on many a Kitchener business house, and for two days the 72-year-old Prime Minister got the full-dress treatment of the home-town boy who has made good...
Lewis records "John's" journey in quest of the beautiful island he glimpsed mysteriously in the stern, unfriendly land of Puritania, where he was born. Puritania was strictly administered by Stewards who issued complex rules of behavior and clapped forbidding masks over their faces whenever they mentioned the Landlord. Searching for his island vision, John one day found "in the grass beside him ... a laughing brown girl of about his own age, and she had no clothes on. 'It was me you wanted,' said the brown girl. 'I am better than your silly Islands...
...first yarn in English about an interplanetary voyage was Bishop Godwin's Man in the Moone (1638), in which birds called "gansas" dragged an astounded visitor there in a dozen days. Another early example was Holberg's Journey to the World Under Ground (1742)-a world of clockwork ships, male prostitutes and learned monkeys. The anonymous Aerostatic Spy (1785) described a balloon trip around the globe...
...Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) described "portable electric lights" 15 years before Edison made his incandescent bulb work...
...other. But everybody meets at the schoolhouse." The Jordans pay about $100 a year in school taxes (Waterloo gets no state support). They expect that their school taxes will be doubled now, but that wasn't what most worried parents: it was the thought of the long journey their children would have to make every day. "They're too little to wait in the dark on a cold country corner," said Mary McKinney, "especially on bad mornings...