Word: travelers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...official Agricultural Commission, the first to travel abroad since the War, left Bremen for the U. S. to study the progress made in U. S. agriculture during the past ten years. Members of the Commission: Prof. Theodor Brinkmann of Bonn University, Prof. George Keuhne of Munich University, Prof. Theodor Roemer of Halle University, Herr Joachim Deiche, large farmowner...
...remarkable feature of it is that there is no story at all. It is a colossal travel picture from lands where travelers never go. In the heart of the continent of Asia there are millions and millions of miles inhabited only by semi-civilized nomads. The search of these nomads for their own food, for their cattle's fodder is the plot of this peculiar picture. There are no actors, just tribes and herds, mountains...
...something important when not engaged in founding restaurants, have decided at last to restore the Parthenon. It's really a wonder they didn't do it earlier, before some of the pieces were lost. But what with the general wear and tear, the growth of grass and American tourist travel, many of the stones have become either missing or mutilated. Its been so long too--oh, almost three hundred and fifty years now--that things have just been drifting along in Greece. It may seem unsympathetic to make any strong statement of protest against the project, for the Greeks have...
...collected the admission.? In 1907, they bought all of the Barnum and Bailey interests at the absurdly low price of $410,000. Among the minor achievements of John Ringling is the acquirement of three Western railroads. Such is his knowledge of the route his circus must travel that he once won a bet of a dinner by demonstrating that he, blindfolded, could trace a railroad line from the capital of any state to the smallest town in the territory...
...your startled eye and dazed mind travel across blasted plains that frost the blood, stun the imagination; over mountain chains covered with age-old snows; across glacial rivers that race like maddened locomotives-barefooted, hungry-Proving That It Can Be Done No Matter What...