Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most astonishing fact was that only 38% (58,853) of last fiscal year's immigrant quota was filled. According to the State Department's travel...
...foot floor space, there is ample room for the players to manoeuver into position, and the length makes much of the game depend on the speed of the ponies and the skill of the riders. On the New Haven floor any hard-driven shot from one end will travel clear to the other, and for a player accustomed to playing on that floor it is a simple thing to score a long-shot goal. Also, the effect of the ponies' speed is reduced to a minimum...
...Looking toward 1940, U. S. resorts and travel facilities are anticipating...
...name of Prince David; but last week British authorities admitted unofficially that David Kung had been politely but firmly asked to leave Hong Kong just after the raid. He went briefly to Manila, then disappeared. Confucius really did say: "While one's parents are alive, one should not travel to a distance; if one must travel, it should be in a fixed direction." Dopesters guessed Prince David had fixed his direction for his father's mountain hideout at South Hot Spring, near Chungking...
Like its author, Through China's Wall defies classification. It is part exquisite travel book, part exciting history, part exotic philosophy. But above all it is a portrait portfolio of a race. In deft, humorous, economical sketches, it explains (better than a whole stack of dry-as-dust commentaries) why the Chinese people lose battles but somehow win wars. Typical snapshots...