Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baths, wash basins and toilets should be in separate rooms, thus multiplying the effective uses of their services. And "we have to do something soon about the slipperiness of our bath tubs which are a thousand times as dangerous to life & limb per entry as railroad travel and two hundred times as dangerous as going around in airplanes...
...sightseeing, instruction, and photography. Scheduled air transport continued to boom, but not so much as in recent years. For the first time since 1925 it failed to double its previous year's record for passenger-mileage. Nevertheless it was up some 20% in a year when railroad and steamship travel slumped heavily. Transport planes carried 457,800 passengers, flew...
Neutrons move much faster than alpha particles, and they have great penetrating powers. They can travel through a mile of air, several feet of lead. They apparently weigh 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 to the ounce. It is only by the finest of discernment that they can be distinguished from unentangled quanta of energy. Streams of them may be what Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan calls cosmic rays. But Dr. Chadwick doubts that. Neutrons may be, because they have opposite poles, the long sought units of magnetism. Whatever they are, neutrons are fine things for physicists to play...
...final meeting will be held in the tutors' common room in Winthrop House at 1.45 o'clock Monday, when details of transportation and accomodations will be settled. It is probable that the Harvard and Radcliffe delegations will travel to Providence...
...show Soviet Russia to luxury-loving Capitalist tourists traveling First Class, the Soviet State Travel Monopoly, Intourist, bought last week 140 Lincoln cars, plus spare parts and accessories totaling $400,000. Ten of the 140 Lincolns are twelves, the rest eights, mostly seven- passenger touring cars and sedans...