Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been "distributed." Telegrams ordering more poured in from booksellers all over the British Isles, from clubs, even from "circulating libraries" which usually rent only fiction. England was excited. England knew that Sir John Simon and his commission had labored more than two years, including 21,000 miles of travel back and forth across India and "taking testimony" in every important city-all for the purpose of finding out and recommending whethera larger or a lesser degree of freedom should be given by Britain to the Indian Empire (TIME...
...mile high, 200 ft. in diameter, carries a great volume of water which it sucks from the sea. Terrifying to seamen by virtue of the fact that the column whirls at the rate of 150 m. p. h., these twisters are seldom long lived. Tornadoes over land last longer, travel from 30 to 50 mi. Greatest in the U. S. was that of 1925 which stretched a ribbon of destruction across Missouri, Illinois, Indiana. In its wake were 695 dead and $16.500,000 worth of tangled, destroyed property.* Instead of transporting water, tornadoes carry chickens, small live stock, lumber, outhouses...
...five holders of Sheldon Travelling Fellowships, which enable the recipients to spend a year in foreign travel, are: Frank McMinn Chambers, of Port Arthur, Texas, Summa Cum Laude in Romance Languages; Albert Gallord Hart 2d, White Plains, New York, Summa Cum Laude in Economics; Franklin Haase Kissner, Bethlehem, Pa., Summa Cum Laude in English; John Chester Miller, Tacoma, Washington, Summa Cum Laude in History and Literature; John Frank Wood, Chester, Pa., Summa Cum Laude in History, and winner of the Washburn Prize for the best thesis in history...
...summer studentship, to enable its holder to travel abroad, is awarded to Spencer Brown, of Hartford, Connecticut, who receives his degree of A.B., Summa Cum Laude in English...
...hundred and four days to the opening of college, boys! More than three months, only a little less than a whole term, filled with what? Travel for many, hard work for many, nothing special for many more...