Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...automobile manufacturers] had their ear close to the ground, they would find that there are still some millions of Americans left who would like to own an automobile designed with sufficient road clearance to permit them to travel occasionally on country roads away from the maddening rush and with sufficient head room to permit a man six feet tall to sit upright and see something of the country through which he is traveling, instead of . . . being obliged to double up over the steering wheel like a half-closed jackknife in order even to see traffle signals...
...writer states that the murals are morally weakening to the student body of that college. A mural, whether it is good or bad, is no more morally weakening to the beholder than is "Gulliver's Travel's" to the reader. No student will be made any more immoral than he already is by looking at a graphic representation of the development of an American civilization, whether it is well done or not. As the writer is representing Harvard--which spends a good deal of its time delving into local college history and perpetuating local tradition,--he is certainly...
...portrait of the aging Daniel Boone. A severe attack of measles left Bingham as bald as an egg at the age of 19. For the rest of his life he wore a succession of handsomely curled wigs. Quick success in painting portraits of his frontier neighbors enabled him to travel. To study painting he went to St. Louis, Philadelphia, Washington, eventually Düsseldorf, but he never lost touch with Missouri, never wearied of wading into her political struggles. He was elected to the State Legislature in 1848, became a captain in the U. S. Volunteer Reserves...
...seagoing people, U. S. citizens are the blood & bone of the ocean travel business. Last week the Department of State released Passport Bureau statistics showing what sort of person the average U. S. tourist is. He turned out to be a male resident of New York City, taking his wife and children to Western Europe to visit relatives. By occupation he might be almost anything from a clerk to a schoolteacher. Of the 139,590 men, women & children who went abroad in 1934 the largest single occupational group were housewives (16,314), the next biggest group people with no occupation...
Principal objects of travel were: Travel (41,491), Family Affairs (47,226), Education (5,488), Business (5,406), Employment (2,165), Health...