Word: travel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nuclear charge is exploded 100 million miles from the earth, it will release all kinds of radiation at the same instant. According to relativity theory, the waves should still be traveling together when they reach the earth nine minutes later. But if gamma rays, for instance, prove to travel measurably faster than infrared through the vacuum of space, relativity, the supreme law of the universe, will have to be revised...
...More than 80 novels, plays and volumes of short stories have made Maugham one of the most widely read writers in the world-and one of the richest. He makes no bones about money and the pleasures it buys: a villa on the Riviera, good cigars, expensive paintings, luxurious travel. As he once put it: "I had no intention of living on a crust in a garret if I could help it. I had found out that money was like a sixth sense without which you could not make the most of the other five." Maugham's senses...
This Saturday Harvard will play a return match with the West Indies Club on Franklin Field in Dorchester. The weekend of May 2 and 3 the Harvard Club will travel to New York State to play Cornell at Ithaca on Saturday and a Rochester team on Sunday. Saturday, May 9, the Crimson meets Yale at New Haven...
...staff of 55, including U.S. citizens, Englishmen, Canadians and a handful of Bahamian Comptometer operators. In air-conditioned comfort behind a Bay Street brass plate, Outboard Representative James Butler says: "We are a completely international company. Europeans come here on business to see our motors. Our salesmen travel from Nassau to all parts of the world...
...first-quarter loss last year, United Air Lines announced that it will show a profit this year on the basis of "record revenues." Said President W. A. Patterson: "The unprecedented traffic was partly due to the improvement in economic conditions generally and the gradually heavier use of air travel for business reasons...