Word: traveller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experiment has been tried before. During the past two years 225 American students, men and women, have visited 21 countries of Europe on tours organized by the Confederation Internationale des Etudiants. Arrangements for travel and reception are entirely undertaken by students of the foreign organizations...
...tour will attempt to coordinate the pleasures and advantages of foreign travel with unusual opportunities to study European manufacturing methods under competent leadership. Inspection privileges and executive contacts have been arranged for in England, Germany, Belgium and France...
Since 1921 he has devoted his entire time to travel, study, and lecturing on the Central European nations. Last summer he made his fourth visit to Germany, and tomorrow evening he will show the films and slides which he took at this time...
...professional data with social theory, saying: ". . . In my humble opinion the greatest evil of this country today is overindulgence in every line of endeavor . . . drunkenness swinging the pendulum to one apex while Prohibition carries it to the heights of the other. Temperance, therefore, should be the avenue we should travel in approaching this great and momentous problem. . . . Shall we have our Government act as a Lucretia Borgia of medieval days, who poisoned all who came into intimate contact with her? . . . I am in favor of taking the Government out of the business of poisoning its citizens...
Sometimes human beings do things that are too much for even the most indurate newsgatherers of the daily press to contemplate without shuddering. But newsgatherers must tell all. The more terrible the scene, the faster news of it will travel, if not by direct word then by dark references, glances over shoulders, ominous silences. It is a newsgatherer's duty to make his report before hints and half-facts have gained currency, letting his editor decide whether the report should ever be made public...