Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Free. World Freemasonry began, according to impartial historical calculations, with the building of the great medieval cathedrals in Great Britain.* It was a trade guild of freemen, distinguished from medieval serfs. It was distinguished from other guilds because the masons- stonecutters and stonesetters-had to travel about, wherever a cathedral was building. Freemasons would set up near the works a lodge wherein to serve meals and prepare their stones. To these lodges no persons were admitted but freemasons initiated in the craft's mysteries, which included not only sure means of identification but technical secrets. Scottish and Irish lodges...
...theories grew out of the Michelson light measurements, was at Pasadena, he noted how frail and nerve wrought Dr. Michelson was. But no one could keep him from his work, not his wife, nor his four children, nor associates. He worked feverishly. His nerves broke down. He dared not travel between cottage and tube. Yet Fred Pearson, his long time assistant, and Dr. Francis Gladheim Pease of the Mount Wilson Observatory, who were running his lights and mirrors for him, brought him their observations. Together they calculated and recalculated...
...Montreal and of Ashford, County Limerick, Ireland, third president of Canadian Pacific Railway, was on his deathbed. His successor, Edward Wentworth Beatty, 45, was ushered in. To young Mr. Beatty, Lord Shaughnessy spoke 19 words which have lived in the lore of The World's Greatest Travel System "Take good care of the Canadian Pacific Railway. It is a great Canadian property and a great Canadian enterprise...
...transport "season" opened last week. To be sure, the air lines operate on schedule the year 'round. But May i begins a six-month period of heavy passenger travel (just as it does for railroads and steamships). Also it marks the end of the bad weather months. March and April are the worst in the year for incompleted or canceled flights. From May to October the average of completed flights is highest...
...Such opportunity the American Museum, on its 62nd birthday, offers in unparalleled measure?travel, exploration, research, adventure, laboratory or book work, but always work of the hardest kind. Only those on the inside can form the faintest idea of what 'Life's fighting line' in the American Museum means. First, it means keeping yourself in sound physical and mental condition which is impossible if you yield to dissipation; second, it means dogged persistence in the face of what appear to be insuperable difficulties; third, it means that you must deny yourself many of the thousand opportunities which surround...