Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they abandoned the idea of a competition and decided to make their venture a cooperative proposition. Instead of a jungle race, they planned to drive by automobile from London to Singapore. Eagerly they sought advice from a hundred or more experts-in government offices, explorers' clubs, consulates and travel bureaus. Almost everyone assured the boys the trip was impossible. They pooled their resources and-being adventurers in the modern age of advertising-sent letters to more than 2,000 industrial firms, asking for help in return for publicity. "It was amazing," said Cowell, "how the firms came through...
...advice of the Irish -had given names of Belfast streets and obscure towns through which she passed on her honeymoon trip and on a journey to the sea as a child. He could find only some of the places, and even they made no sensible pattern of travel...
Many disciplines are fused in his personality--the Catholic training of his youth and college years at Georgetown, graduate study at Magdalene College, Cambridge, his years as a lawyer, and extensive European travel. At Cambridge, his supervisor was I.A. Richards, whose standards of artistic excellence based on absolutes conditioned Sweeney's critical tastes. Working with Richards and William Empson in Basic English stimulated in appreciation of poetry's lingual exactness and internal architecture...
...Travel expenses of $2500 are needed if Shelby Lyman '59 and three other American college chess players are going to enter the third World Student Chess Championships at Upsala, Sweden, next month...
...Japanese scientists are waiting for the U.S. nuclear tests scheduled for April in mid-Pacific. Any labeled air masses that they send to Japan will be welcomed (meteorologically at least), whether they travel direct or by circumnavigation...