Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...they don't intend losing any money on this new plan. No longer will we be able to travel for one fare, from Harvard square to Harvard square via Park street and Massachusetts avenue. The price is to be regulated according to the length of the haul, five cents for a short haul, ten for a long. Let us all hope that our objectives in Boston live not live not more than a nickel distant...
...awakened in the American people an interest in geography, an appreciation of the significance of geographic factors in the control of industrial and commercial life. Every man interested in large business enterprises should be trained in geography; every man who expects to travel in foreign lands or to enter government service should understand the geography in his own country and that of the world...
...these trips the men will, according to the present plans, travel to Wakefield by trolley on Friday afternoons. There they will be provided with quarters in the Range houses or in tentage supplied by the Naval Reserve Force. The rifle practice will commence early Saturday morning, in each case, and will be continued on Sunday morning if necessary in order to complete the course. The men will then march back to Cambridge on Sunday afternoon...
This week a nation-wide appeal is being made for contributions of books for war libraries for men in service at home and abroad. More than a million books will be required to supply camps, barracks, transports and hospitals with plenty of readable books. Fiction, biography, history, travel, poetry, and almost any form of literature will be welcome. Contributions will be supplemented by generous purchases, especially in scientific and technical lines...
...thousands of books will be necessary. The American Library Association is buying by the hundreds of thousands text-books and other serious books, for which there is enormous demand, but it is looking to the public to supply by gift the millions of volumes of lighter literature--fiction, poetry, travel, etc.--which our men must have...