Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...railroads changed the habits of the country almost a century ago, but it took us more than 20 years to pass the lame-duck amendment, which simply gave public recognition to the fact that men travel nowadays on railroads. Thousands of Americans go to Europe now where one went in Washington's day, but when Americans legislate on international relations they still believe that Washington's said the last word on that subject. The frontier disappeared some time before the nineties of the last century, but our legislators have not discovered that fact, and the law still assumes that...
Paderewski. The high-backed, red-seated chair without which Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski refuses to play was folded up in Chicago last week, set up again in Milwaukee, then packed for Ann Arbor. This year the 72-year-old pianist is giving concerts as fast as he can travel. Unlike other years, he will not stop to rest at his ranch in Paso Robles, Calif. His private car is hitched to one fast train after another. When it stands sidetracked, trainmen still gather around it to hear the old man tirelessly practice his trills and runs, sound out his smashing...
Pons. Next week Lily Pons begins a concert tour with first stops at Buffalo, Harrisburg, Washington. Ita, the seven-month-old jaguar which she brought last autumn from South America, will travel with her. Ita rests most comfortably on cold, smooth steel. On the train he will sleep in the washbasin. In hotels he prefers the inside of a grand piano...
...with a terrific sound like giant bolts of canvas being torn. The Norwegian whalers which had with difficulty put him, two companions, 53 dogs, a wireless machine and a year's supply of food, fuel and equipment on the ice barrier, had all gone. His party was to travel 3,000 mi. along the Atlantic edge of the Antarctic, from Princess Ragnhild Land to Hearst Land...
...library of 2,350 volumes on a wide variety of subjects. This was the bequest of Dr. W. L. Richardson '64, late professor in the Medical School. It was made up in the greater part of books by well-known writers in history and literature, with a scattering of travel and science...