Word: traveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flash Gordon zip and gleam of modern, streamlined, air-conditioned railway travel have been taken for granted for years by cinemaddicts, toy makers, and U. S. travelers in the West. Last week Eastern railway passenger travel suddenly got Flashed up when two of the nation's most famous trains, New York Central's Twentieth Century Limited and Pennsylvania's Broadway Limited, were streamlined to the last rivet and brake beam and made into the first all-room Pullman trains...
...shilling shares to finance active research. He proposes to build three lookout towers, each equipped with a telephoto camera, range finder, stop watch, powerful binoculars, sound apparatus like that used for detecting the presence of submarines. L. N. M. Co. will determine Nessie's size, her speed of travel, and whether she is, as various eyewitnesses and scientists have declared: 1) an elephant seal which swam in from the North Sea via the Caledonian Canal; 2) a hippopotamus; 3) a 50-ft. prehistoric reptile with a whiskery pinhead and eight scaly humps; 4) a giant squid; 5) "an abomination...
They will travel with the Yale 150-pound crew which also intends to enter the regatta, and a Harvard-Yale finish may result...
...graduate of New York University, lives in Brooklyn, studied this past year at Princeton's Graduate School. His fellowship requires that he spend some six months each year in Rome, but the rest of the time, far from reeling and moaning through the streets. Architect Iversen intends to travel-"if they keep the peace," he said gloomily, "which I doubt...
...Harvard committee will also request that the second ambulance be attached to "one of the medical units in Barcelona, or some other large city, where it will be used to give succor to those injured in air raids. Because it can travel at a greater rate of speed and can hold more persons, it has been found that a vehicle such as is contemplated is more satisfactory, than a regulation ambulance in afflicted areas...