Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arturo Toscanini, Soprano Lotte Lehmann, Basso Ezio Pinza, as "enemy aliens," found they had to get U.S. permission to travel from city to city. Questionnaires had to be filled out in quadruplicate for each jump. It meant that concertouring Lehmann signed 80, concertouring Pinza 88 (both of them have taken out their first papers). Toscanini won the right to go from New York to Philadelphia to Washington...
...touring team is always at a disadvantage with the inconveniences of travel, and it is a question whether the Crimson could have played better ball without these disadvantages. Lack of reserves, weariness of train rides, strange courts, and strange backboards were to be met and taken in stride. These are not excuses for defeat but rather are examples of what a visiting team must face when it plays away from home...
...could get his case transferred to the more lenient ecclesiastical courts. Every great university in Britain and the U.S. was founded with strong religious motives, largely to educate ministers. And until the last century the idea of education without religious instruction was as novel as the idea of travel without a horse...
...oversized Bing Crosby. He never got through the seventh grade but has an amazing knack for machinery and aerodynamics. After five years in the Army Air Corps (1917-21), he joined Lloyd Stearman and Clyde Cessna (both of whom later formed their own companies), started Wichita's Travel Air Co. to make small planes. Travel Air boomed with the air craze of the Twenties...
...head. He made his way to Hong Kong, there met the great Sun Yat Sen, who later made Lea his chief military adviser with the rank of general. Lea went with Dr. Sun into exile in Japan. Then he went back to San Francisco and, after years of travel and study, wrote The Valor of Ignorance...