Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...successful ambidextrous illustrator & painter. This evolution resulted from an accident that occurred 20 years ago. Then Mr. Lawrence illustrated for Harper's Weekly. His wife took sick, so he was forced to concentrate upon illustration almost to the exclusion of his first love, water color. His sketches demanded travel-Europe, the West Indies, South America. It was on a South American tour that the sun beat him into partial paralysis. His right hand hung disabled...
...University baseball team will travel up to Medford this afternoon to help the Tufts nine end its most successful season in years. Yesterday Dartmouth, toppled by Harvard in ten innings on Friday, celebrated the Tufts Class Day with a game at Tufts Oval. Today, with the Commencement crowds still thronging the Tufts campus, the Crimson and Brown and Blue nines, on their records two of the strongest diamond aggregations in the East, will clash in the Oval at 3 o'clock...
...York Central officials deny that there is any distinction between Century sections. There is, they say, no "first," no "last," save as the trains are spaced a block* or two apart on the runs. Nevertheless, should Calvin Coolidge or George V or Charles Augustus Lindbergh signify a desire to travel as a private citizen (i. e. not in a private car) between Chicago and Manhattan, he would undoubtedly be assigned space on the section conducted by Conductor Kennedy or Conductor Hendrix, the section called "first" only for convenience, perhaps, but invariably attended at one end of the run or other...
...long time after railroads became practical for travel there were no provisions for sleeping. People sat up or slept in. the floor filth. Then, in 1836 the Cumberland Valley R. R. of Pennsylvania built some bunks into a second-hand coach. Travelers could use the roller towel, basin and water provided in the rear of the car. It traveled between Harrisburg and Chambersburg, Pa. Later innovations were straw ticks, blankets, cuspidors. Travelers used their carpet bags for pillows...
Dirty, bumpy bricks at Indianapolis Speedway will once a year bring fame and fortune to an automobilist, if he will travel over them a sufficient number of times at a speed in the neighborhood of 100 miles per hour. This year the winner of the 500-mile "classic" on the two and a half mile track is a youngster comparatively unknown, a dirt track specialist-George Souders, 27, who spends his more serious moments studying mechanical engineering at Purdue University in Lafayette, Ind. In a Duesenberg special, he covered the 500 miles of bricks at an average speed...