Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down correctly. ... In all cases where adequate data are at hand the method of redress is by simple arithmetic, in conjunction with two or three venerable formulas. . . . The labors of Newton and Copernicus have been complete for some time now, but news sometimes seems to travel slowly in precisely those quarters where it is significant...
...globe on commercial aires. Soon after, Pan American's President Juan Terry Trippe and a party of friends also flew around the world on commercial lines. Last week, Aviatrix Amelia Earhart Putnam took off from Oakland "to establish the feasibility of circling the globe by commercial air travel" and "to determine just how human beings react under strain and fatigue." The plane was the $80,000 Lockheed Electra bought and outfitted for her by publicity wise Purdue University as a "flying laboratory." With her as navigators she took three men, but not her publicity wise husband, who stayed...
While Kuo Kuo gets more mysterious and unmanageable with her secret plans, Juan solaces himself with Harriet, a travel-book writer. That affair lasts until Harriet's professional duties call her away to the pirates of Bias Bay. Then Juan falls into Kuo Kuo's clutches again, and almost before he knows it he finds himself in a tin-armored tank advancing against the Japanese intrenchments, under heavy but inaccurate fire. How Author Linklater extricates his hero from that parlous position is a caution...
...Cochrane to describe how he bought 1,000 shares of Tack, but the famed catcher had evidently found the game too fast to follow. Asked where he had been in November 1935, he said he thought he had been in Wyoming but that might have been in October. "I travel around so much I don't know where I am half the time," he apologized. "I am here but I don't know what it's all about and I'd rather be back of the plate. You know what to look for back there. This...
Playing a game that is, if anything, tougher than football over 60 men are now working out each trying their best to gain a position on the squad of 20 that will travel to sunny Bermuda during the Spring Vacation to open the season's official schedule. Started in 1929, the popularity of the sport has grown rapidly, until last season the team was undefeated. This year it is hoped that three teams will be kept out all the time...