Word: journey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roessler's disappearance, a bumptious little man wearing sideburns turned up in the West Zone city of Hanover. He was, he said, Franz Richter, Ph.D., a schoolmaster who had been expelled from his home in the Sudetenland by the Czechs. His papers had got lost on the long journey from the Russian front. During the war, he said, he had served as a Wehrmacht paratrooper in a company commanded by Captain Fritz Roessler. As Dr. Richter told it, Roessler had been killed in the Ukraine. He had personally helped bury him, and had promised to take care...
Twenty Crimson trackmen journey to New York and New Haven today to compete in the annual Hoptagonal Championships, with the Crimson as distinct underdog. The field events will be held at Yale and the running in New York's 102nd Armory...
Lucky moviegoers who went to see "Royal Journey" at the Guild 50th in Manhattan yesterday got an extra, added attraction. "Invitation to Harvard," the College's own movie, got its first commercial showing. Produced by the March of Time for alumni, the picture will enjoy an "indefinite...
...book I am again giving you my hands. I am leading you, not through cool pine woods, but up and up a narrow defile between bare and steep rocks from which in shadow things uncoil and slither away. It will be dark. Before you understand the meaning of the journey, I may not be there, my hands may have slipped from yours. It will not matter. For when you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when...
Separated from the Navy in New Orleans in 1946, he started out for China with a friend. They bought motorcycles for the first leg of the journey to San Francisco. En route, they took a side trip to Mexico, liked it so well that they forgot about China and enrolled at Mexico City College to study Spanish. "We were both very annoyed at being in Mexico and not being able to speak Spanish," he explained...