Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...travel the 1500-mile Trans-Andian Highway, he had to rebuild an old jalopy whose wheels came off repeatedly throughout the trip. Narrow roads were common, and at one point he had to telephone ahead 20 miles to make sure that the road was clear of ears coming in the opposite direction...
When Professor Burns of Dartmouth raved that Harvard historians never travel beyond the Cape and are interested in nothing west of the Hudson, he must have forgotten Paul Buck. This stocky, bespectacled historian came to Harvard in 1923 and has since acquired a reputation of knowing "more about the South than any man in the Country," as one Alabaman newspaper editor...
...where they would go to. (The Government considered the idea of setting up big farm camps in the interior.) Francis Biddle also set up a curfew zone, covering a fourth of California, where all remaining aliens must be in their houses from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., must never travel more than five miles from home...
Masters of the Midway tells about Dufour & Rogers, the Belascos of outdoor entertainment. They rule "that curious world of 60,000 outdoor show people, the 'carnies,' who travel from town to town with carnivals." Ferocious Mr. Rogers and suave Mr. Dufour work their clients after the classical manner of detective teams, one rubber-hosing, the other soft-soaping. One of the more lucrative of their develop ments is the Aboriginal Village, on which the "nut" (overhead) is small "once the concessionaire has learned the fact, unreported by anthropologists, that all primitive peoples exist by preference on a diet...
...spread west ward as far as Berlin. The British radio told of a Nazi questionnaire sent to directors of Berlin shelters for foreign workers. In part it read: "Are there vermin in the camp, particularly lice? Who last exterminated lice and when?" British reports also said that normal travel between Germany and the eastern occupied zones had been suspended. Alarmed by news that typhus was also increasing in Spain and North Africa, even the British Government called medical conferences...