Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instance of narrow-mindedness in those days. A group of people asked the permission of the authorities to use a school building for a meeting to discuss that new invention the steam locomotive. Permission was refused because the school board said, If the Lord had meant us to travel more than 15 miles an hour he would have said so in the Bible...
...Crimson fives will see action today, the Freshmen entertaining Hebron Academy at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon in the Freshman Gymnasium, while the University will travel to the M. I. T. floor for its fourth game of the season at 8 o'clock tonight. The Engineers' floor will be used for dancing after the game...
...Kyne's latest novel is The Enchanted Hill †. He will do a series of travel articles about his recent trip around the world before he attempts an-other long story. Meanwhile, he intends writing more soldier stories; for not only is he a veteran of the Spanish War, but he was an Artillery Captain in France during the late conflict...
...seduction and only once each of divorce and crime. Politics, religion, science, mechanics, bodily exploits or collisions were also eschewed. The themes were love, "treated with that vividness in innocence and ardor in purity which seem, in literature and life, to be the reward for abstinence from its distempers"; travel, literature and art, ethics, metaphysics (shyly), "the mysticism of psychology" and social problems...
...being made at the University Observatory for the coming total eclipse of the sun, which occurs on January 24. Although its surface will be only 99 percent covered by the moon at Cambridge, the eclipse will be total in the western part of Massachusetts, and Professor Shapley plans to travel to an observatory there or in eastern New York state. Other members of the Observatory, including assistant Professor Edward S. King will probably go to the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket Island, where the eclipse will also be total...