Word: traveling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Feature of the traveling exhibition was "This Shrinking World," a series of smaller and smaller globes of the earth measured in terms of travel time over the past 100 years, from 150 days of circumnavigation in 1840 to eight days in 1940, from clipper to Clipper. Using the British Whitley bomber with its 700-mile range as typical of most medium bombers today, pictograph charts show that the raider theoretically can carry 6,250 lb. of bombs for a distance of 50 miles, but that it can carry only one 500-lb. bomb for a distance of 700 miles...
Only experienced travel passenger agents are placed in these agencies because an ordinary ticket seller, who has to take time to look up information, isn't quick enough to handle the rush of customers...
Under the leadership of Hugh S. Barbour '42 and Maurice S. Friedman '43, 15 to 20 students of the various colleges travel weekly to some spot where their labors will be of assistance, forget for a while the intellectual college atmosphere in which they have been steeped, and get down to three or four hours of honest toil...
...confused and even shocked by "ammoral conditions" in the new urban centers, and also seeking to provide the increasingly large percent of the American population who led dull, "stay-at-home" lives with escapist literature, authors around 1870, such a Bret Harte with his "sentimental minors", concentrated largely on travel and "local color" throughout the united States, said Goodbody...
Almost a dozen members of the Crimson team will travel to Philadelphia this afternoon to be on hand for the Army-Navy game Saturday afternoon...