Word: journey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minutes he was on Mehring Damm. A short time later he sighted an American flag flapping over Tempelhof airdrome and knew he was near his journey's end. Last week, perched on the edge of his chair, blond, stringy Mieczyslaw told his story. And the father he had run so many risks to find? A call to England located him: a textile worker in Blackburn, Lancashire. The boy smiled a small, trembling smile. He had made...
Speed the Journey. Born the very year that the pyramids were discovered, soft-spoken Samuel Mercer has spent a lifetime studying ancient languages. He has specialized in cuneiform and hieroglyphics, has compiled grammars in Assyrian, Ethiopic and Egyptian, written a definitive study of the tablets of Tell el-Amarna, been professor of Semitic languages and Egyptology at the University of Toronto. Since 1946 he has devoted his full time and energies to working on the pyramid texts...
...person of the Pharaoh. When a Pharaoh died, he was supposed to go to heaven to take his place among the gods. The texts, usually inscribed on the eastern walls of his tomb where he might conveniently see them, served no other purpose than to speed him on his journey...
...heaven was also a mirror of the earth, had islands, rivers, marshes and palaces, and was peopled by gods who showed themselves as stars. Each mortal, the Egyptians believed, had his double in heaven, and after death his spirit went forth to join the heavenly double. But the journey upwards was apparently a precarious one, and the burial texts attempted to take every precaution...
...Journey to the Far Pacific, by Thomas E. Dewey. A discerning and lively narrative of the governor's travels in 17 countries (TIME, July...