Word: orienteers
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...depression except for the abandonment of the sold-out Round-the-World cruise of the Bremen scheduled for February 1938-due partly to cancelations by passengers after the early autumn recessions of the U. S. stockmarket, partly to cancelations because of the alteration of the cruise route from the Orient to the Antipodes. In the main, however, battles in Spain, China, unrest in the Holy Land, North Africa and the Mediterranean have simply diverted cruises to South America, Scandinavia, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and the West Indies. In this winter of f lourishing cruise business most of the world...
...Take care of yourself.'' Through milling travelers on deck stewards wove their way, intoning, "All ashore that's going ashore." Ninety passengers aboard the Dollar Line's President Jackson thought last week they were bound on a long voyage from Seattle to the Orient...
...substance but actual radium. The Lawrence cyclotron technique has in the past five years come to be recognized as the most efficient atom-smashing device in the world. Eleven cyclotrons are either in operation or being built in the U. S., one in Canada, eleven in Europe and the Orient. And many of these projects are directed or staffed by men who learned their cyclotron technique as research fellows under Ernest Lawrence at Berkeley...
...intimate friend and cash contributor to the fortunes of Dr. Sun Yatsen, the late Father of the Chinese Revolution who is revered as a Saint at Nanking, the Chinese Capital. Long ears, characteristic of all Japanese statues of the divine Buddha, are considered to indicate wisdom in the Orient. Last week the Shanghai correspondents of the New York and the London Times were driven to the secret headquarters of General Matsui. They found muddy water an inch deep in the hall of the Commander-in-Chief's commandeered headquarters, paper pasted over the broken panes of his windows, water...
Member of a famed Virginia family, Bishop Tucker is, a low churchman whose experience with foreign missions will give the presiding bishopric a new, vigorous missionary bent. From 1899 until 1923, save for a period when he was a major in the A. E. F., he served in the Orient, part of the time as Episcopal Bishop of Kyoto, Japan, and president of St. Paul's College, Tokyo. In 1923 he succeeded his brother, Rev. Beverley Dandridge Tucker Jr., as theology professor at Virginia Theological Seminary, was elected Virginia's bishop coadjutor in 1926. Said he, surprised...