Word: round-the-world
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...Philippines. Resigning to become Director for the East of the Rockefeller Foundation, he traveled through Europe and Asia, lived in Ethiopia, Japan, Siam, Australia, the South Sea Islands. Russia. His professional duties ranged from establishing a leper colony in the Philippines to conducting a colleague on a round-the-world tour in the interest of the fight against tuberculosis, from persuading Haile Selassie to cooperate in the struggle against yellow fever to leading a campaign against polished rice in the South Seas. Vigorous, informative, complacent, he discourses with equal animation on the history and treatment of leprosy, on his experiences...
...winner will be one of three undergraduates who will speak before the 10,000 odd alumni on September 17 in the mammoth new Tercentenary theatre. The proceedings will also be broadcast over a round-the-world radio network, with Harvard Clubs from London to Singapore tuning...
Captain Gregory's Dollar Liner President Garfield had just docked on its regular round-the-world schedule. Passengers had complained of insolence and insubordination among the crew. One gentleman from East Orange roared: "Rottenest bunch of Red agitators I've ever seen!" Another said he was roundly berated by a steward whom he addressed as "boy." Dollar Line officials declared they were making a sincere effort to maintain the best possible service under the circumstances...
Married. Douglas Fairbanks Sr. (ne Ullman), 52, cinemactor; and Lady Ashley (Sylvia Hawkes), 52, onetime musicomedienne; after a round-the-world romance; in Paris. U. S. Ambassador Jesse Isidor Straus was a witness. In 1934 Lord Ashley divorced his wife on charges of misconduct with Fairbanks; month later Mary Pickford divorced Fairbanks for mental cruelty...
...arrived after the Reliance had steamed out for Manhattan under Commodore Fritz Kruse. Captain Kieff boarded the Europa as a passenger, headed back across the Atlantic in pursuit. Last week the Europa ran into heavy weather, arrived ten hours after the Reliance had churned off south on a round-the-world cruise. Grimly the taciturn German skipper stamped aboard the Furness Liner Eastern Prince, sailed for Rio de Janeiro, where he is scheduled to arrive the same day the Reliance is due there...