Word: touring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Zeppelin Tour. Swift and sure the Graf Zeppelin accomplished its long frustrated Mediterranean tour last week? 5,208 miles in 81% hours. Commander Dr. Hugo Eckener guided her through varied weather over the historical sites?from Friedrichshafen, over the Swiss Alps, Corsica, Rome, Pompeii, Crete, Cyprus, Haifa, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Greece, Albania, Jugoslavia, Vienna, and home to Friedrichshafen. April 15 he will begin another Mediterranean cruise, then in May two cruises...
Such journey, no tour de force, would serve to study the Arctic's floor. Some geologists believe that the waters rest in a huge basin, others that they hug the outside of a basin upside down. No one knows. Explorer Wilkins found a depth of 17,000 feet (3½ miles) off Point Barrow. Amundsen found 15,000 feet off Spitsbergen. Peary dropped a 3,000-ft. rope at the Pole and could not touch bottom...
Frances ("Peaches") Browning, nee Heenan, juvenile half of a disgusting age-and-youth sex case, last week finished a lucrative vaudeville tour and prepared for an all-summer European holiday. Her companion: Mother Heenan...
...game, which marked the close of the three weeks Spring training period, was watched by Knute Rockne, famous coach of Notre Dame elevens, who is in Boston on a speaking tour...
...foot, by motor, from St. Paul to Cape Cod, from Minneapolis to Washington and back again, gleaning, and sorting, and sifting the facts that compose his incisive writings. He started Dodsworth in Berlin, continued in France, Italy, and the Aegean Islands, finished the first draft on a motor caravan tour through England...