Word: roading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week C. N. A. C. inaugurated a new service between Chungking, capital of China, and Rangoon, capital of Burma. The famed Burma Road is the most important ground line of communications between free China and the outside world, and for those who must see that China gets the essential materials of war, the parallel air route is indispensable...
...clock, the Corps will reform in the Yard and march to the Stadium via the Dudley Gate on Quincy Street, Bow and DeWolfe Streets, Weeks Bridge, and the Charles River Road, arriving on the field at 1:15 o'clock...
...Take the High Road is capable of interesting a far more general, more sedentary audience than those whose interest in flying is already active. For Author Langewiesche has an uncommon talent for conveying, not merely describing, physical sensations. He is, moreover, both as airman and writer, a skilled amateur, with the wisdom never to desert his amateur standing. Of the 25 photographs, most are well above the shoddy average for book illustration, a few are magically good...
Readers of My Life will find plenty of candor, but not quite the kind of thing they expected. The first 250 pages are dull as dishwater-a long-winded genealogy of Havelock Ellis's ancestors (healthy, middle-of-the-road sea captains, churchmen, businessmen, who "neither rise nor fall"), of his sheltered childhood, of his innocent young manhood as a schoolteacher in Australia, medical student in London, platonic lover of Olive Schreiner (The Story of an African Farm), who called him "my Soul's wifie." At that time, Ellis candidly confesses, he was 5' 10½" tall...
Only unusual case in Still man this year is David C. Jones '40 who contracted a case of paratyphoid fever this summer. Although in the infirmary for the last three weeks, he is now well on the road to recovery...