Word: journeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman soccer team, with a record of one victory and on defeat so far this season will journey to Worcester this afternoon to avenge the defeat of last year's eleven by Worcester Academy. The game will start at 3 o'clock. The probable line-up will be as follows: g, Gans or Woodard; r.f.b., Stern; l.f.b., Morey; r.h.b., Herling; c.h.b., Burnett; l.h.b., Hale; o.r.f., Gherardi; i.r.f., Goodhue; c.f., Smith or Mackinnon; i.l.f., Trevvett; o.l.f., Pruyn...
...Communist Deputy, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and a fine of 2,000 francs ($118.40) for inciting soldiers to disobedience. M. Cachin was absent in Russia when he heard that his case was to be brought to trial. He hurried back, doing the last stage of his journey from Berlin to Paris in an aeroplane, but arrived in Court only in time to hear his sentence. Both Deputies declared that they would appeal and if necessary would carry their case on to the Court of Cassation, which is the highest Court in France and sits at Paris...
...American ZR-1-to be christened appropriately Shenandoah or "Daughter of the Stars" by Mrs. Denby, wife of the Secretary of the Navy-made a pleasure trip to St. Louis to see the races, and returned to Lakehurst after an uneventful journey of 2,200 miles, at an average speed of some 60 miles an hour despite strong head winds...
...Anton Heinen, German test pilot and consultant in the construction of the ZR1, predicts the elimination of disasters due to poor piloting and improper construction-the Captain has carried 100,000 passengers in the air without a scratch-and the ousting of ocean liners by dirigibles. Certainly an air journey of five days from San Francisco to New Zealand instead of 22 by sea is tempting...
Those who journey to Parnassus go at their particular gaits. Some hobble, like Carlyle. Some stagger, like Henry James. Some swing along gracefully, like Addison. Some minuet, like Stevenson. Some swagger, like Marlowe. A great, great many simply walk. By courtesy we name all manners of proceeding " style " " literary style." The road to the White House is not identical with the pathway up Parnassus. Yet those who walk must have a stride, those who speak must have a style, and Mr. Coolidge has just presented the public with a new specimen of the Presidential literary gait-in 1,120 words...