Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Fesler's basketball quintet will board the train this morning at 9 o'clock to travel southward for two basketball games this week-end. The first game will be an Eastern Intercollegiate League contest against Princeton this evening, and tomorrow's event will be against Swarthmore...
...Best known bearded Scot: Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, author of travel books, persistent kilt wearer, onetime M. P. (1886-92), ardent Scotch nationalist...
...Foundation paid his way as a U. S. author for a year's "creative writing." Adamic had not intended to spend much time in his native country, much less write a book about it, but he ended by doing both. The Native's Return, something between a travel diary and a guide book, is better than most such journalistic accounts. Though his book may well make its author persona non grata with the Jugoslavian Government, it should certainly boom the Dalmatian tourist trade...
...against Vice President E. P. Lott and Chief Pilot H. T. ("Slim") Lewis. The subject of Behncke's Washington activities remained unsettled. It was raised when big airlines replaced obsolete 110-m.p.h. planes with new airliners flying more than 150 m.p.h. Since the faster speed would make pilots travel the same distance in less time than before, they demanded to be paid on a mileage rather than hourly basis. (On the per-hour basis, pilots' pay had averaged $6,500 a year.) Loth to sacrifice the economic advantage gained by speed, the airlines refused. The Pilots Association threatened...
...when conducting my log ging operations in northern Minnesota, I was 200 mi. from the point on Rainy River where International Falls, Minn, and Fort Frances, Ontario are now situated. . . . It was midwinter and a blanket of snow three feet deep made travel difficult. There were no roads. Accompanied by my head timber cruiser we covered the distance on foot and finally arrived at the Hudson Trading Post, one beautiful moonlight night after midnight with the thermometer at -40°. I viewed the wonderful water falls there and decided to become a real pioneer. The outcome was the building...