Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Respect has mingled with curiosity as, through the years since the War, the U. S. public has watched a roundheaded little Princeton professor with thick spectacles travel hither & yon through the world as physician to sick money systems. Princeton has loaned him freely to various nations since 1912, but long before (in 1903), he helped the U. S. Philippine Commission start the islands off on the gold standard. Since then he has probed the problems of Egypt, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Union of South Africa, Chile, Poland, Ecuador, Bolivia, China, Panama and Peru. In 1925 he analyzed the economic ills...
...while we are on the subject of prohibition, the following excerpt from the same source, appears on p. 306: ". . . Three things I did, once in awhile, during my two years and four months of foreign travel, that I never did and never do at home. I went to see sights on Sunday, went to the theatre, and took wine at dinner...
...commonplace as a steamship crossing" was considered by many a fairly far-fetched prediction for dirigible travel in the near future. Yet last week, with so little fanfare that few in the U. S. were aware of it, the Graf Zeppelin visited Rio de Janeiro with passengers & mail on her fifth voyage from Friedrichshafen since Aug. 28. At the same time in Akron, Ohio an important milestone was passed in U. S. dirigible development. On the strength of a radiogram from the Secretary of the Navy, Lieut. Thomas G. W. ("Tex") Settle, naval inspector of construction of the airship Akron...
...Cossack chorus emphasizes its historic background by appearing in military tunics, breeches with a single scarlet stripe, and high, shiny riding boots. It has many another unique characteristic: Its members are all exiled from Soviet Russia (as men-without-a-country they travel on "Nansen" passports devised by the late Norwegian Explorer-Statesman Fridtjof Nansen, issued by the League of Nations) yet their organization would be sanctioned by the most ardent Communist. It is run on a strictly co-operative basis. Conductor Serge Jaroff takes no more of the profits than the least important of the choristers. But like...
...first time in many years, the Freshman football team will travel to Hanover today to meet the undefeated Dartmouth Freshmen on Memorial Field. So far the Hanoverians have beaten Clark School 34 to 0, Tilton 35 to 0, and Roxbury 14 to 0, while the Harvard team has defeated Exeter 6 to 0, played a scoreless tie with Andover, and lost to Worcester Academy...