Word: journeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After lunch the squad, coaches and managers left by bus for. White River Junction, where they boarded a special Pullman car to complete the journey to Cambridge by train. The busses pulled out amid the cheers of 1100 students and the playing of the college band. Practically the entire student body of 2200 students and the band will leave on two special trains at 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. An athletic holiday has been granted over the week end so Hanover will be a deserted village tomorrow night...
...When we had penetrated upstream five or six days' journey beyond the last Indian village, we halted and searched for ancient ruins. Eight miles from the river, we discovered an old site that yielded ceremonial deposits of metates, or corngrinders, of many sizes and stone columns carved with symbols. We loaded some of the discoveries and brought them back with us, thereby increasing our navigation difficulties considerably...
Mishaps. Scarcely had Her Rumanian Majesty settled down to the journey than she remembered having left a vial of "seasickness pills" on her dressing table at Bucharest. Since her forthcoming voyage to the U. S. looms as the Queen's first long sea journey, she had attached great importance to this particular vial of pills, compounded especially by a Florentine pharmacist. Soon, however, Her Majesty was reassured. Hasty telegraphing effected the despatch of the pills by airplane to Paris...
...game was notable for a lack of team-play, caused largely by a brisk breeze that accelerated the progress of the ball in an eccentric fashion. The Crimson players seemed tired from their train journey and made no concerted effort to repulse Amherst's individual rushes. The aiming of shots by the Lord Jeffs was of a brilliant nature. Wilson, outside right for Amherst, sank penalty 30-yard penalty kick in the Crimson net, convincing score...
...from the Holy City, and the adventures of the pious thieves in their conveying of these relics to a church not far from the court of Charlemagne at Aix-la-Chapelle. The miracles wrought by the relics, and even by portions of them stolen from the thieves during their journey, fill out the narrative...