Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crest to crest the "longest" wave was set at 300 yards. (Let golfers picture a drive and a pitch; tennis players, 12 courts laid end-to-end; city-dwellers, 3 1/2 blocks). The time it took one wave to replace another was approximated at 20 seconds. "Longest" waves thus travel 15 yards per second, 40 miles per hour...
...When planes attack, they travel about three times 33 miles an hour. There's a little difference in shooting at a slowly moving target and trying to hit one going 100 mi. an hour...
...guilty of the same false pride, with the consequence that numerous Poles in Upper Silesia, many of whom were in the same position as the Germans in Poland (except a number of recent immigrants working in the Ruhr mines and elsewhere) , had to leave everything they held dear and travel against their will to the land of their forebears...
...will start early next year. Mr. Akeley is going, not for mere sport as some hunters go, but to collect museum specimens. He will sail for Africa before the New Year. In March the remainder of the party-including Mr. Eastman-will follow. They will start from Mombasa and travel into the hinterland 24 hours by rail to Nairobi. Six months will be spent in the great game country, where Theodore Roosevelt hunted elephants, hippopotami, rhinoceri, lions, leopards, zebras, giraffes, antelopes and gazelles in 1909. This is Mr. Akeley's fifth trip to the same region. Guns, cameras...
...taken a great interest in the ailments of animals, which eventually led to interest in human ailments. At the age of 20 he left the farm, began to travel, peddling pills of his own manufacture as he went. Sales grew fast as his fame spread to the four corners of the earth...