Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this sum cannot be regarded as expenses. Many items of outgo are offset by much larger items on the side of income, and without such expenses there would be either no income or less profit. For guarantees to visiting teams we pay $284,008.98, but teams would not travel from New Haven or any other place to play for nothing, and without such games there would not be the several hundred thousand dollars of income which appears on our books. It cost our teams $40,099.95 to travel last year, but in return we received $52,964.94 from guarantees...
...tighten around the head. Or the bones of the skull seem about to burst apart like the staves of an overfilled cask. Usually the sickening pain stays to one side of the head. ("Migraine" comes from Latin hemicrania, "half-head.") With many victims the pain shifts around, may even travel down to the neck, shoulders, arms. The skin, particularly the scalp, may be unusually sensitive. Touch, sound, sight vex the victim...
DUNSANY (Lord) Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens...
...Travel is one of the joys of the bookseller. In the passed years, I have travelled on one excuse of another for about eight months of the year, spending four tied down to an office desk. Of course, those four months meant pretty hard routine work. But a trip to Italy on the excuse of buying Italian books, to Germany for Incunabula, or merely around England and Scotland in quest of English works were a refreshing interlude...
This set-up economizes the energy thrown into the ultra short waves. Theoretically those waves, which approach light waves in rapid brevity, should behave like light and travel only in straight lines. Theoretically such waves cannot bend around Earth's circumference and thus serve to carry messages long distances. But Inventor Marconi has been communicating with them across 180 mi. Says he: ". . . For some reason . . . the waves are deflected and travel further than they should according to theory...