Word: passports
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...course it is extremely difficult to secure a passport to any European country at this time, unless one can prove that he has been offered a specific chance for useful service over seas. Such chances are necessarily limited and difficult to locate. Where found, they require various qualifications on the part of those selected to fill them. The mere acts of getting in touch and of coming to some sort of terms with the various associations and government agencies which control reconstruction work on the other side, are sure to cost much uncertainty and loss of time...
...ranks reluctantly and left gladly. They served in the spirit of the Shakesperian soldier, who said 'Cheer me on that we may reap the harvest of peace from this one act of bloody war!' They found treason and left loyalty, and made the name of American citizenship the proudest passport that a man can early throughout the entire world...
...Sorbonne Conferences. Upon the whole, I felt perfectly contented with Paris and her institutions after this piece of good fortune. Such is a brief account of my matriculation in a French university. It is nearly as simple as that of the Leipzig University, where for foreigners a passport alone suffices...
...Otium cum dignitate' - the learned leisure of a scholar's life - always despising digging, you know, and what with ticking, screwing and deading, am candidate for a piece of parchment tomorrow, certifying that I am admitted to be by all A. B., which being interpreted is A Booby, a passport all the world over...
...length the eventful day and hour came, my name was called, and I marched up to the table once more, passing successfully the Cerberus with the pile of papers, who could find no flaw in my passport this time. The next man was the Rector, who asked me my name and nationality, having apparently forgotten my previous visit to him, and wrote them into their appropriate places in a large sheet before him, which I afterwards found was a sort of testimonial that I, "vir juvenis ornatissimus," &c., had entered the University and was enrolled among its students...