Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Wild, speaking over the Colonial network, criticized sharply the new legislation as a peace-maintaining factor. Weighing the efforts of Congress to keep this country out of war, he said: "A simple reiteration of the legal fact that Americans travel and trade in wartime at their own risk that the government will not give them blanket protection in whatever they undertake, and the direction of energy into prevention of war now instead of this naive effort to keep us unentangled by a hodge-podge of embargoes and prohibitions these steps would be far more effective...
...first "seen." Eyewitnesses during the following season ranged from hard-bitten big game hunters to impressionable lady schoolteachers. Their descriptions of the beast varied in detail but agreed roughly that it was 40 to 50 ft. long with a large whiskery head and eight humps; that it could travel 40 m.p.h. up & down the lake, prudently keeping at least 100 yd. from shore. On the east shore, a large pudgy "footprint" was found. Scientists entering the discussion opined that it was: 1) an elephant seal that had slipped through the Caledonian Canal from the North Sea; 2) a giant squid...
Mauch, with Bobby and Billy, returned to California for good, where he has now been transferred. The Mauchs travel by train, because they consider that planes are injurious to their father's business...
Discovering that she was going to give birth before she could travel from her house to Chicago's Maternity Center, Mrs. Leonard Nelson telephoned there for advice. With the telephone receiver clutched to her ear. she then proceeded to do precisely what the alert obstetrician at the other end of the line told her to do. After eight minutes of this Mrs. Nelson cried that she had borne a son and started to hang up. A neighbor, however, snatched the receiver, yelled over the phone: "She's going to have a twin." The doctor: "Let me talk...
...enlisted the aid of New York University's Physicist Richard T. Cox, who helped him rig up testing apparatus which demonstrated that the eel's current courses along its body at the rate of 1,000 meters per second, approximately ten times the speed at which impulses travel along the nerves of man. Last January, Physicist Cox & party set sail for Brazil to delve further into the eel's mysteries. Last week's capture was the first news from them, but next fortnight they will start home with their findings. Christopher Coates snorts at the idea...