Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practice of the arts (music, dancing, sculpture) and the practice of eccentric rites, such as building wooden statues to serve as decoys for devils. Balinese music influenced Debussy. Balinese dancers inspired that able U. S. dancer, Ruth Page (TIME, Nov. 25, 1929). Even before Hickman Powell's travel book, The Last Paradise, Bali was on its way toward becoming the latest and most approved resting spot for tired occidental esthetes. Further confirmation of the vogue for Bali was supplied last week when Mexican Caricaturist Miguel Covarrubias exhibited in Manhattan drawings which he made in Bali last winter...
...last June who applied to the placement bureau of the School for positions, only 35 remain unplaced. The total number of degrees granted was 383, but 22 of these failed to answer inquiries and offers of assistance, eight are foreign students, and eight are engaged in further study or travel, leaving a total of 345 men to be placed...
Should any of the Harvard seniors who agreed to travel West to play in this game find themselves unable to go, the eastern team would enlist Harvard football players of last fall who will be competing for a place on the Olympic track team in the I. C. A. A. A. A. tournament, according to Clark. The players who have agreed to go are E. A. Mays, Jr. '32, J. F. Schereschewsky '32, and B. D. White '32 as candidates for backfield positions; William Ginman '32 and H. R. Myerson '32 as guards; and F. H. Kales...
...Paris of the East, boasts an excellent golf course, race track, yacht club, an enormous number of disreputable resorts and the Shanghai Club, with the longest bar in the world. So popular is Shanghai with officials of the Nanking Government as a week-end resort that tourists wishing to travel to Nanking, eight hours away, Sunday night must book sleeper accommodations weeks in advance...
...large drafting room and, at the other end of the building, an instrument room exhibiting apparatus of historical or practical value. Many types of time pieces, special cameras, theodolities, compasses and such things are included. A room near the entrance has been set aside for the use of the Travellers' Club, a body of distinguished gentlemen whose interest in travel and exploration has drawn them together but who have been hitherto without permanent quarters. A prized furnishing of their room is a large wall map, much lined with red, representing the journeyings of its members...