Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to Mr. Ouimet no group of men is more pleasant to travel with than a team of golfers such as contest the Walker Cup. They are unselfish, helpful, and exceedingly cheerful. "To be a good golfer one has to be a gentleman: the attributer of each go hand in hand...
Milk was a favorite beverage of that earnest temperance reformer, the late Thomas Cook (1808-1892). He became a travel agent through promoting excursions to temperance meetings, circa 1841; but his field became international and finally circumnavigatory when he organized the first world tour for tourists in 1872. Perhaps his proudest moment came when Thomas Cook & Son exclusively arranged the transport of that British army which sailed up the Nile to relieve General Gordon at Khartoum (1884). Since then "Cooks' " has stood in travel service for something equivalent to "Sterling." Today the Chairman of "Cooks'," a Knight...
...about $3,000 in most (Episcopal) dioceses. 8. It has permanence of tenure; clergymen (Episcopal) need not fear losing their appointments except for grave cause. 9. 'The clergy are exempt from being drafted for war.' Also they often get ten per cent discount on merchandise and they travel for half-fare on the railroads. 10. 'They are so favored by the kindly attention of wealthy and leading parishioners that their children enter the highest social life.' 11. They are often able to save money, especially when, 'through the kindness of financial leaders...
...year examination period. With four new men in the line-up, the University grapplers are scheduled to take the mat against Springfield College at 8 o'clock in Hemenway Gymnasium. Holders of H. A. A. season tickets will be admitted to this event. The first year men travel to Watertown, Conn., where they will engage the wrestlers from Taft School...
Admittedly the plan is one to enthrall imagination. For some time acquaintances meeting in foreign capitals have remarked that the world is after all, a small place. To contain the tourist whom travel has broadened until he is loquaciously expensive, who gives critical lectures, or pokes things derogatorily with a cane, the world is indeed too small. For him is such a trip designed. But before he and all his ilk can be bundled with the necessary changes of linen into a gargantuan rocket, the contention that so many foreign bodies in space might disrupt the delicately balanced celestial system...