Word: traveling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General of Supply invited me to ride to the front in a lend-lease U.S. Army scout car, loaded with soldiers and armed with riot guns, and explained that I must not travel at night unarmed: "This is not China. People are unfriendly." An orange glow tinted the sky when we ran into a truck jam and a hubbub of cursing Chinese soldiers. "Six planes incendiarized a town south of the river, and traitors burned the north of the river," an officer explained. In the woods, the tall, straight trees formed pillars in the column of fire, and stood trembling...
These fellowships, giving freedom to travel and study as the recipient chooses, are among the highest academic honors at Harvard, and were established in 1909 by the bequest of Mrs. Amey Richmond Sheldon, in memory of her husband, a member of the Harvard Class...
...Travel (by day or night) is either impossible or unpleasant-by motor car, impossible for lack of gasoline; by train, crowded, dirty and invariably delayed. Hotels are jampacked. (Soldiers are everywhere, some of them on leave to meet their wives or sweethearts in the provincial cities.) Food, of course, is scarce-not so scarce as to be unhealthy or even a serious problem for ordinary people, but scarce enough so one can never forget the subject (a sliver of butter with each meal; perhaps no butter at all would be easier to bear). As for clothes, English women have never...
George "Bunks" Burditt '43, Stellar Varsity basketball forward and captain-elect of the 1943 team, will travel to Kansas City, Missouri, to cover the national championship game, between Dartmouth and Stanford. He will report the contest for the Boston Herald, and will arrive in time for the game Wednesday...
Ayres Will Not Travel...