Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Again on the international level, the conference proposed activities of practical use. Not only did it go on record strongly in favor of full participation in international student organizations, but it suggested a number of functions regarding student exchanges and student travel abroad. One proposal provides for a "bureau that will disseminate and publicize information about courses and opportunities for specialization in foreign universities for American students, and for foreign students in America...
Curfew at 10. Like their European counterparts, the U.S. hostels hug secondary roads and avoid large cities, vary from deluxe cabins to converted barns. Hikers and bikers travel light, hop from one overnight spot to the next...
...fictitious, names, to protect their families. Their outgoing letters are sterilized before mailing. They occupy their time with bicycling, movies, reading, dances, golfing on a small links. They are allowed visitors and two weeks' leave at home each year, but visits home are difficult because lepers may not travel on trains, buses or other common carriers. Carville patients sometimes marry each other, but their children (susceptible to the disease) are removed as soon as they are born...
...drop? The new flu vaccine? Unlikely, thought experts; the Army, with fewer troops and fewer troop movements, has given no shots this year; civilian vaccination has not been widespread. Possible explanation: a decline in civilian (and G.I.) travel, fewer mass meetings, an end to factory swing shifts, more staying at home...
...this greatly gifted American, pouring out the riches of her art to houses that are sold out weeks in advance, could not for a long time travel about her country like her fellow citizens. She has given concerts in the South, where her voice is greatly admired (and where she avoids Jim Crow by traveling in drawing rooms on night trains). Even in the North, she could not until fairly recently stay at most good hotels. In the South, she must still stay with friends. In New York City, she used to leave frantically applauding audiences to sleep...