Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representatives of the Vantine studies will start their tour of the Houses with Adams on Monday and Tuesday, November 23 and 24, and will travel thence to Dunster on November 25 and 27, Leverett and Winthrop on November 30 and December 1, and Eliot and Kirkland on December 2 and 3. The circuit will end up with a grand climax at Lowell House, where the photographers will stay four days, from December...
...have promised what I think is my better self that at that age I would free myself as much as possible from imperative duties to the end that I may have time to read many books which I have not had time to read in a busy life, to travel and to serve my neighbors and some public causes. ... As a beginning ... I hereby resign...
...Brush your teeth, comb your hair, hurry to bed, say your prayer, and before you know it I will be there. This year "Tourate" telegrams have been introduced, which grant a low wordage charge on messages containing strictly travel information. Postal Telegraph in most cases has duplicated Western Union's special message arrangements, but last week had no intention of trying to match Western Union's football service. Parents, friends and rooters may have delivered to any locker room in the country any of the following inspiring sentiments...
THREE-WHEELING THROUGH AFRICA-James C. Wilson-Bobbs-Merrill ($3.50). As the strange and obscure folkways of African natives become better known, white travel-writers through the dark continent are driven to increasingly eccentric exploits in their desire to stay off beaten paths and make interesting copy. Net result is that a collection of recent African books is likely to give armchair travelers a vague feeling that both blacks and whites in Africa habitually suffer from a touch of tropic sun, natives indulging in some pretty weird ceremonies, their white observers indulging in carrying-ons no less grotesque. A patient...
Skyways to a Jungle Laboratory is the travel diary kept by Mrs. Crile of the expedition of her husband, Dr. George Crile, famed U. S. surgeon [TIME, Oct. 19], to Maji Moto Camp in the Great Rift Valley of Tanganyika. Writing little of the scientific achievements of the camp, Mrs. Crile gives good descriptions of Africa from the air, long accounts of the hunting exploits of the members of the party, illustrates her book with 51 good but conventional photographs...