Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which pursues electronic clouds as they drift over the earth's surface is in the possession of the Physics Laboratory. Harner Selvidge and Paul Bernard King, Jr., graduate students in the Engineering School, and John Alvin Pierce, are guiding the vehicle in its pursuit of the elusive clouds that travel an estimated distance of 62 miles high...
...joking by radio to the ground force just before he cracks up virtually onstage in an attempt to land in a fog. Largely because of this harrowing sequence, and the arrant Boy Scoutism among the pilots off duty, Ceiling Zero does not make a convincing advertisement for air travel...
Harvest, her 21st translated book, is little more than a literary scrap-book- Swedish and Biblical legends, reminiscences, travel sketches, reprinted speeches. And the book is not an anthology of brilliant blossoms; epigrammarians will find slim pickings here. But for stout-hearted oldsters who still swear by convention, old fashions, common sense and straight talk, Harvest will be a comfort and a quotable aid. Author Lagerlöf, like all her contemporaries, has been through the mill; unlike most of them, her final comment transcends platitude: "Thanks and praise be to God that the hard truth came wrapped in happy...
Significant in the tabulation is the fact that only 45 per cent of the men are entering vocations for which they have a personal preference. A great number specified that they would rather write, travel, enter the diplomatic service, or engage in teaching if external circumstances allowed. Others would enter the fields of music, art, academic research, aviation, farming, the Army, entomology, journalism, or fashion reporting. One even professed that he would like to be a perennial undergraduate...
...debate is on the subject; "Resolved, That a policy of economic nationalism is advisable for the United States." The negative team will travel to Princeton and face the Tigers Friday, while the affirmative team will clash with Yale that evening in the Lowell House Common Room at 8.00 o'clock...