Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vivant. Brooklyn-born Porter Sargent lives in the Boston suburb of Brookline, is a bit of a bon vivant (old cheese, old china), something of a poet (he has published one volume). He attributes his real education to travel rather than Harvard (he sent Porter Jr. to North Carolina's experimental Black Mountain College), but enjoyed his Harvard post-graduate research in botany, zoology, neurology. After eight years of teaching at Cambridge's proper Browne & Nichols School, he spent a decade traveling in Europe and circling the globe five times with pupils of his unique Travel School...
...Federal view of vacations: ODT approves a one-trip vacation (if not too far away) as "necessary travel." Casual trekking-off over weekends is frowned on. Trains (preferably coaches), busses and common carriers are all right for holidaying-if space can be found. The use of private automobiles in the East is strictly illegal-even to visit an Army camp. But Washington said that travel would not be rationed this year...
...Travel advertising took a sudden, self-conscious spurt, but had a frustrated tone. Lake George, N.Y. beckoned soothingly: "Everything within easy walking distance . . . you don't need a car." Sea Island, Ga. boasted: "No rationing of cool sea breezes." The Denver Convention & Visitors' Bureau: ". . . Thousands of young Americans training in and near Denver say they're coming back, when their job is done. . . ." "If," said the Mexican Tourist Association, "you plan to visit your boy in camp in the Southwest. . . ." La Province de Québec described its humming war plants, its R.C.A.F. training fields, shrugged: "Your...
...fellow who used to travel to Coney Island ... I have seen . . . California, Florida, Oregon, Canada, London, Algiers...
...Heinkel roared out of an overcast Norwegian sky. It was the evening of June 5, 1940. The submarine Clyde of the Royal Navy (1,500 tons displacement, surface speed 22 knots) was on the surface, recharging her batteries. Able to travel thousands of miles without refueling, she was patrolling the North Sea. As the Clyde plunged into the protecting vault of ocean, she was sprayed with bullets and cannon shells, her steel-hided bridge pierced in three places. The Clyde could no longer surface to recharge her batteries in safety: from now on the area would be patrolled...