Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council for Student Travel, a New York organization which revealed the plan, is coordinating the trip for four other groups, which will each choose ten students for the program. Three of these groups are the Experiment in International Living, the Lisle Fellowship of Ann Arbor, Mich., and the Ecumenical Volunteer Service of the United Student Christian Council of New York. The fourth group has not been identified...
...income from her estate. When she disappeared, there was a lot of money lying around in a dozen-odd bank accounts and safe-deposit boxes. According to subsequent testimony, Scott, using forged signatures, helped himself liberally to the money, spent a bundle of $100 bills on travel, Las Vegas gambling and gifts for a shapely divorcee...
Most tourists believe in love at first site. Hurrying and scurrying about, they rarely stop to court an insight. Three unhurried tourists currently grace the book counters with travel accounts that are wise, witty and uncommonly well-written. Laving their individual sensibilities in the "implacable light" of the Mediterranean littoral, these writers perceive and share the region's Antaeus-like grip on life for life's sake...
...line workers are usually trimmed fast to meet any fall in sales, the payrolls in service industries, on the other hand, are slower to feel an economic change. Every year, the service industries have been absorbing more workers to serve the nation's growing market for leisure and travel, to sell its growing volume of goods and keep its millions of gadgets in operation. The growth in service workers since 1950: from 26.5 million to 32.3 million...
Even under the new theory, the earth's upper atmosphere is still nearly a vacuum. Rocketeers and missilemen, whose vehicles travel through this area at tremendous speeds, probably will have to make only minor adjustments in their plans. But if the Smithsonian's finding checks out, the perigee (minimum orbital altitude) for a long-lived satellite will have to be raised from 140 miles to 180 miles because of the decelerating drag of air particles at the lower altitude. Anticipated perigee for Vanguard: a safe 200 miles. Scientists at Washington's Carnegie Institution are still puzzling over...