Word: traveling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seventy-three years before Anthropologist M. F. Ashley Montagu set down his reflections on double beds & divorce (TIME, Jan. 1), Lewis Henry Morgan, the "Father of American Anthropology," wrote in his European Travel Journal, which you reviewed in TIME...
Cassady and Jaffe got back with the information. Vandenberg's men were ready with antitank guns that travel 400 m.p.h. - P47 Thunderbolt fighter bombers. For the next four hours the Thunderbolts struck in groups of four, boring in through the mist with flak-scarred wings nearly scraping the towering hills, to drop their bombs and to rake the column with rockets. One contingent found another column of comparable size on a winding road, gave it the lethal works...
Will war-speeded colleges now "accelerating" the year round go back to the long summer vacation after the war? Last week came two resounding Yeas. Students in favor, as polled by the American College Publicity Association: 67%. Teachers in favor, as polled by a Manhattan advertising agency interested in travel trends...
...late summer drive from the Channel ports to the German border had been so rapid that the troops were forced to travel light. Extra clothing and blankets were cast aside. At the front, house-to-house fighting and barbed wire wore uniforms to tatters in less than a month. At one time, the need for more blankets was so great that they were collected from U.S. camps and shipped to the war fronts...
Early in May, 1832, Washington Irving returned to New York after 17 years in Europe. He found his heart beating hard, and when New Yorkers asked him how long he meant to remain in the U.S. he answered: "As long as I live." He began to travel about the country, suddenly happier than he had ever been in his life...