Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty members of the Freshman baseball squad will travel to Exeter this afternoon to meet the strong academy team. The schoolboys have a powerful squad this year, despite the fact that they have lost by graduation Coombs, stellar pitcher who for four years held unchallenged the mound position on the schoolboy nine. Coombs graduated last June, and is at present playing at Duke University...
...still-valid "perpetual unity" signed in 1856. Whatever the trouble, the Grand Dalai Lama despatched couriers weeks ago who reached the terminus of a Chinese telegraph last week and sent frantic appeals for troops to the Chinese Nationalist Government in Nanking, promising to pay them well if they will travel and march about 2,500 miles to the defense of Lhasa...
...amount of posing could have built and maintained for Stokowski the sound prestige which he has everywhere. This he owes to the great mental energy which years ago made him learn German, unaided, from a grammar; which on his recent Oriental tour led him to travel for weeks under the most primitive conditions to listen to native music unadorned; which enables him so to concentrate on his music that in his concerts he never needs a score. In matters musical no one can exceed Stokowski's capacity for work. Nor has anyone maintained toward music a more open mind...
Charles Dexter scholarships, enabling the recipient to travel in England during the summer and pursue the study of English Literature, were given to the following: Dr. H. W. Taeusch Inst., Dr. W. P. Jones Instr., G. W. Brace Instr., H. P. Vincent 3G, B. M. Wagner 4G. H. O. White 3G, W. D. Templeman 3G, C. K. Hyder 4G, J. R. Bowman...
...Farlow Herbarium, returned to San Jose, Costa Rica's highland capital, after a month and half's sojourn in Guanacaste. With two, huge, native-made chests of cedar and bulky presses, all loaded with the 5000 specimens, the colectors felt repaid for their hours of horse-back travel and forest excursions on foot, where it was generally necessary to cut a way through tangled vegetation with a machete, the typical, sword-like knife of the New World tropics. But the physical hardships were almost negligible. Thanks to the unstinting hospitality of large land-owners, Harvard's representatives enjoyed many comforts...