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Word: travel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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They have made no plans for their stay in England, but will travel through the country at their leisure. The Conants are travelling tourist-third, peace and quiet being the object of their trip. It was announced unofficially that President Conant was not expected to visit Oxford or Cambridge Universities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT CONANT GOES TO ENGLAND FOR MONTH'S REST | 9/25/1936 | See Source »

...work on projects in the city of Memphis are not rural people and they probably could not pick over 60 to 70 pounds in a day of ten hours and would therefore receive not more than 7? per hour for their labor, and in addition they would have to travel 70 miles a day to and from their work. These jobs would not provide a subsistence wage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Picker Paucity | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

...describe Alice Marble as a new face is not entirely accurate. Her tennis career began when she was 14. That year, her eldest brother Dan gave her a racquet and suggested that instead of playing baseball and basketball with boys, she learn a game which might enable her to travel around the world in style like Miss Jacobs and Mrs. Moody. Alice Marble took his advice, improved so rapidly that she won the California State Girls' title at 16. This brought her to the attention of Eleanor Tennant who, third ranking U. S. player in 1920, had since become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Forest Hills Finale | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

...from 19 to 28, the guides form a seemingly intellectual body. Most of them carried on graduate work during the summer. Two will receive Ph.D's in Fine Arts this year; another joins the faculty this fall. One has been appointed instructor in econofies, and another will travel to Cuba after the celebration to take up a teaching position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 300th GUIDES BUSY AS SIGHTSEERS POUR IN | 9/17/1936 | See Source »

...graduate of Harvard with the class of 1932 Mr. Snow is a teacher of history in the Winthrop High School. It is not academic history which he writes, but a curious kind of travel-book history, both in content and in form. One can find out how to reach the islands as well as what happened on them in days...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 9/16/1936 | See Source »

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