Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discovered I myself had been victimized. A Ford, which I had left behind Claverly Hall in violation of a seldom-enforced rule had disappeared. Of course, theft seemed the most plausible explanation at first, but a few anxious minutes of inquiry disclosed the annoying truth My subsequent round of travel exposed me to master-pieces of red tape. Only after being shunted around from Church Street to Lehman Hall, and from there back to two garages on Church Street, ore of which had to sign the release for the other, was I finally permitted to drive away the miscreant automobile...
...trade routes are one of the most picturesque of archaeological problems. The road from India to China led west of Tibet, since the country of Burma was difficult to travel. It passed through the ancient province of Gandhara, where it touched the western culture left haphazard by Alexander's armies and the traders who followed. It then bent eastward through what is now Chinese Turkestan, and finally, constricted by the Himalayan Mountains and the Gobi desert, debouched into what is now Kansu province...
...Kara Khoto in the Gobi desert was one of the expedition's objectives. But progress was very slow. In many places the roads were mere gullies worn 20 to 30 feet below the surface of the surrounding country by the countless years of travel over them. In the rains these roads became mud sloughs. The expedition actually considered itself fortunate if it was able to cover 20 miles a day in the carts in which it went as far as Suchow in Kansu. Here it changed the carts for camels and turned northward...
...unfit to teach us Christianity. Some of them are admirable men, but I speak of the average, mediocre in mental calibre and unequipped intellectually to carry on the work," said Amherst-educated Count Aisuke Kabayama, member of the Japanese House of Peers, last week as he prepared to travel, via the U.S., for the coming Parliamentary Congress in London. A baptized member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he finds good in both Buddhism and Christianity...
...Every Wednesday night during the winter term lectures, including several travel talks were held in Harvard Hall. These together with a number of motion picture shows have continued to draw large crowds every week. Addresses on science and art, which we had arranged, for two Friday evenings each month again proved popular...