Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sixth annual University Cruise Around the World, offering students the opportunity of combining a program of standard, systematic university courses with the advantages of comprehensive, directed travel will sail from New York October 5, 1931, in the S.S. "Resolute" of the Hamburg-American Line, it was announced yesterday at the office of the University Travel Association, 66 Fifth Avenue, New York City. After completing their 234 day study trip to 33 countries in Europe, the Near East, and Orient, the students and professors return in the "Resolute...
Like many travelers they were ill-prepared for the worst. The worst was not piranhas (carnivorous fish), tarantulas, snakes, jaguars or hostile savages, but lack of water, of food. The stifling, steamy heat was bad but endurable; but once swarms of ihenni flies kept them sleepless for 90 hours. Their mules, exhausted by travel, were nearly finished off by vampire bats. One time Duguid, night-enveloped, riding the trail alone, was halted by two blazing eyes. He was sure it was a jaguar, but Siemel convinced him afterwards it must have been a couple of fireflies; no land animal...
...Robert Judson Aley, 68, president since 1921 of thriving little Butler University at Indianapolis, Ind., resigned last week voluntarily to "write, travel, and play...
...game replete with loose plays, the Sophomore baseball team overcame the Senior nine by a 12 to 11 margin yesterday in the deciding contest of the class baseball series. The 1933 players will travel to New Haven on Saturday to take on the Yale class champions...
...choice of careers which present themselves to college men, there can be no doubt that the foreign service offers unusual attractions, combining, as it does, the occasion for foreign travel and residence, the opportunity for contact and acquaintance with the moving minds of the world, and the satisfaction of a patriotic service to one's own country. Considering the amount of space in history, and in current events, which diplomacy occupies, and the amount of public attention which it has always received, it is surprising to note that it is without question one of the smallest professions. There are probably...