Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...establishment of a league to enforce peace." He clung to that declaration and has never left it. In September, 1922, he wrote to President Harding: "I shall be 65 years old the 18th of this month. ... To the end that I may have time to read many books, ... to travel and to serve my neighbors and some public causes, . . . and as a beginning of what I hope may be at least a partial realization of this philosophy of my later life, I hereby resign. . . ." He kept his word; the chief cause which he has served is the League of Nations...
...welcome to use the schoolhouse to debate all proper questions in, but such things as railroads and telegraphs are impossibilities and rank infidelity. There is nothing in the word of God about them. If God had designed that his intelligent creatures should travel at the frightful speed of fifteen miles an hour by steam, he would have clearly foretold it by His holy prophets. It is a device of Satan to lead immortal souls down to hell...
...definitely announced yesterday by the Harvard Instrumental Clubs that the Sophomore Glee Club would travel with the bsujo and mandolin players on March 6 to Haverhill for a combined concert. This is the first active step in the proposed amalgamation. The manager of the-Instrumental Clubs hopes that by next fall the 1926 glee men will join the Instrumentalists in one organization...
...stipend to be paid to the holder for 1924-25 of the Jacob Wertheim Research Fellowship for the Betterment of Industrial Relations, has been fixed at $3600. Extra allowance for research, necessary travel, and publication will be made...
...feet deep under the Hudson River. But Baltimore and Washington cannot communicate satisfactorily by radio. This is due to a large "dead spot" or peculiar geological formation in the earth between the two cities, says Dr. James Harris Rogers, inventor of undersea and underground radio communication. The energy waves travel from base plate to base plate, rather than from aerial to aerial, according to Dr. Rogers. Long-distance messages take the way of least resistance and are not hampered by dead spots. Washington electrical experts are experimenting on the problem...