Word: traveling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...medicine owes a great deal of its knowledge about sex practices to Dr. Dickinson. A pioneer in the birth-control movement, he traveled round the world several times, quizzing prostitutes in Berlin, Paris, Shanghai. With Dr. Howard Canning Taylor and such top-flight specialists as Drs. Frederick Clark Holden and Franklin Mar tin as members, he formed the American Gynecological Travel Club, which went all over the U.S. and Europe, observing operations in different clinics, exchanging information on techniques. "In those days," he told some of his admirers last week, "we used to hold a spare knife between our teeth...
This week the 42½-ton California Clipper sat down on the dirty, boat-infested waters of Singapore Harbor, thus completed the first scheduled Pan American Airways trip from San Francisco to Singapore. To U.S. shippers and businessmen this meant that travel time to Singapore had been cut from 25 days by steamer to six. But to diplomats it meant that the U.S., Britain and The Netherlands had formed a united front against further Japanese airline penetration in the area...
...modest about his life-history, protesting that the academic life is a series of books and lectures. Endowed with no financial advantages, Nock struggled his way through the Portsmouth, England, public schools, gained scholastic renown by studying a path through Trinity College, Cambridge, and cased his mature days travelling, researching, reading and writing. But here is a character whose personality is so diverting that the usual stories of war-experiences, travel tales or tight squeezes have to take a back seat. It is more interesting to know about Arthur Darby Nock's ideas, see him in action, and discover...
...Harvard or in the catacombs of Rome. A messy desk and a baggy suit are the first steps to scholastic success. He prides himself on the library so swelling that it over-flows onto the kitchen stove. Life for him is a succession of research, lectures, writing and travel. He must, in his own words, "walk just fast enough forward so as not to run backwards, Righto...
...Stahlmen have two games on the books for the coming week. On Friday they travel to providence for a game with Brown and on the following day Columbia invades Soldiers Field...