Word: travelers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world can claim a name more firmly fixed by right of discovery, by priority and by universal usage for more than a century.. . . For a hundred years, the name of Mount Rainier has been used whenever the mountain has been mentioned in histories, geographies, books on travel and exploration, scientific publications, encyclopedias, dictionaries and atlases of many nations?by the United States, Canada, England, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Russia, Spain and even Arabia...
When Trotzky left the capital to travel south, he created a riot. His friends and admirers poured into the streets to give him a rousing sendoff. Unfortunately, his enemies arrived also, to prevent the popular demonstration. A pitched battle lasting far into the night was the result...
...many it will be an opportunity of visiting the Europe which, to them, is bounded by the boulevards of Paris, Monte Carlo and its gambling hells, Deauville and San Remo; and if they can see a one-piece bathing suit, they will have achieved the summit of European travel. . . . Every mail brings me seductive circulars...
...Since the eclipse will not be total in Cambridge," he continued, "we are cooperating with the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket Island, which lies in the path of the total eclipse. Two of us expect to go there, while Professor Shapley will travel to an observatory in the western part of the state or in eastern New York...
...Those of the educated Americans who can afford to travel and out of sheer curiosity go to India, should arrange to give some of their time in offering short courses of free lectures in the field of their special interest. These lectures could be easily arranged with the help of Indian schools and colleges...