Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold service stripes on their sleeves. Dr. Samuel Alfred Mitchell, director of the Leander McCormick Observatory, University of Virginia, who has been looking at the skies for 32 years, has the great totality total of 15 min. (six eclipses) to his credit. He has had to travel 90,000 mi. to do it. Had he attended every instance of the sun's darkening since 1900 he would have a grand total of 68.1 min. and might have traveled as far as the eclipse-causing moon (238,857 mi.) and back again. It was with much satisfaction that he radioed...
...Barrel-chested John James Fougere Audubon (1785-1851), for whom the National Audubon Societies were named, spent the prime of his life in difficult travel throughout the land shooting, skinning, studying, sketching, reporting North American birds. In 1827 he published his great ornithological work Birds of America containing 500 of his famed bird drawings...
...route west to the Missouri River and over the Rockies to Great Salt Lake; 3) from Leavenworth southwest by the Santa Fe trail to the southern Sierra. Where the oxcart went, Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown has decreed, there shall the commercial airplane first go-until men learn to travel through the air as safely and economically as they can move on earth. Result: migratory lines Nos. 2 & 3, plus a third "natural channel" across the flat south and lower southwest, have formed the bases for charted airways...
...through passenger travel by air completely established over all three, but last week the middle (Santa Fe) line was opened. T. A. T.-Maddux and Western Air Express, operating together as Transcontinental & Western Air Inc. which they formed to fulfill their new joint U. S. main contract (TIME, Oct. 13 ), began 36-hr, service between Newark and Los Angeles...
Despite my Cantabrigian prejudices, I am forced to decree that only those will watch this afternoon's game in the Stadium who can not afford to travel to Maine, where Colby will clinch the state championship, or to Yale where "Der Tag" has arrived and the Big Green will shake the jinx at the Bowl. If the going is wet, Dartmouth should have a decided edge; if dry, the Bulldog will battle them on nearly even terms...