Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Railway through most of the trip, and the book necessarily suffers from the limitations of such a vantage point. This narrow scope of observation does not, however invalidate his report; it merely robs it of the greater sampling possible if be had been allowed free rein to talk and travel as he pleased...
...last convulsive protest, the Democratic minority warningly predicted a presidential veto of the bill. But the G.O.P. was unmoved. With 18 Democrats joining 46 Republicans, the Senate approved the measure. It summarily outlaws the nearly $6 billion pending suits for back travel and makeready time, and makes illegal for the future all such claims not covered by "custom" or contract. It also relieves employers of any liability for back damages as long as they were acting in "good faith" at the time...
...America is not a religious 'melting pot' and does not cherish a colorless uniformity of beliefs and cultural expressions. . . . We are all dedicated to the belief in the Brotherhood of Man and Fatherhood of God, but each group can and should travel on its own road in order to achieve this coveted ideal...
...Bishop of Fulham has to be a special kind of bishop. His diocese covers some 800,000 square miles of northern Europe, from Biarritz to Iceland. His flock consists mainly of Englishmen-on-holiday, diplomatic service staffs, finishing-school girls, other British transients and trippers. His duties involve constant travel, and an interminable round of social occasions that would deepen the rings under the eyes of a gossip columnist. But the new Bishop of Fulham who was consecrated at St. Paul's this week could hardly wait to start his peripatetic...
Tall, stooping Rt. Rev. William Marshall Selwyn is only worried about one thing: carfare. To visit the 80 chaplains in his far-flung see will take him at least two years of diligent travel. His Church of England stipend of $5,000 a year does not allow for much travel after living expenses have been paid. Even though he has a small private income, Bishop Selwyn hopes his episcopal gaiters will help him hitch many a plane or car ride. He plans to take his wife "only when I can afford...