Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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World voyages primarily for students, entailing systematic classroom work as well as sight-seeing, have been conducted for six years by the "Floating University," under the sponsorship of the University Travel Association. A 60-day Summer School Voyage to Europe, during July and August, will also be undertaken this year...
...main attraction of the voyage will be the three days in Berlin, from August 7 to August 10, during the Olympic Games. Members desiring to spend more time here may rejoin the main party at Hamburg, or travel overland to Rotterdam or Paris. In any case, opportunity will be granted to attend the Olympic Yacht Races on August...
James P. Baxter, associate professor of History, will travel to Cambridge University, England, during the month of January to deliver three lectures on Anglo-American relations...
...Last spring Adolph H. Lubin, wrecker, of Springfield, Ill., paid $25,000 for wrecking privileges at Chicago's Century of Progress, went to work on the Hall of Science. Last week, as steel girders of the Travel and Transport Building crashed. Wrecker Lubin figured he had salvaged lumber, wallboard, steel, electrical hardware, plumbing, other items, with a total value...
CATCALLS - Peggy Bacon - McBride ($2.50). For her collection of caricatures, Off with Their Heads! Peggy Bacon supplied brief prose texts that described her victims in mean, oblique phrases. Thus Franklin Roosevelt's head emerged as "a big trunk, battered by travel and covered with labels, mostly indecipherable." Cat-Calls is a collection of 36 poems in which the note of malice is a little muted, and in which an occasional tentative note of concern and passion is apparent between the lines. Most of Peggy Bacon's poems and pictures are impressions of city life, ranging from a glimpse...