Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cardinal-elect might not travel to Rome: Johannes de Jong of Utrecht, Holland's first cardinal since the Reformation, whose physician decided he had not yet recovered from a recent motor accident. His red hat would be brought to him by a papal legate...
...soccer) in his native Hungary, where, as in most foreign countries, it rated tops in popularity. Six months ago he decided to make Americans soccer-conscious. He raked together $75,000,* organized the Chicago Maroons, wangled playing rights in big-time Wrigley Field, formed a streamlined league which would travel by air. In Chicago last week U.S. soccer moguls promptly approved an April opening for his loop. If U.S. soccer needed a live-wire promoter, he had arrived...
...last we can say-'Travel for Pleasure.' " In newspaper ads the Greyhound Corp. bus lines thus caroled that the worst travel jam in U.S. history was about over. The Office of Defense Transportation chimed in. On Feb. 15, U.S. airlines can stop setting aside 70% of their eastbound transcontinental space for servicemen. On March 15, ODT restrictions on Pullman runs and on advance rail reservations will...
...Toronto University, 60 students staged a sophomorish sitdown in protest against having to travel 50 miles a day to & from applied-science classes at Ajax, Ontario. The strike lasted one hour. In Winnipeg, 124 Tribune and Free Press printers who had struck last November (TIME, Dec. 3) and had subsequently been fired for "absence from work," claimed they were still on strike. But the two papers had long since trained new printers and were publishing regularly...
...Relativity. According to Einstein, the velocity of light is constant, which makes it the basic measuring stick in the universe. If light's velocity were proved to be variable, as some suspect, science's present conceptions of the universe would have to be scrapped. Since radio waves travel at the same speed as light, and the distance from the earth to the moon can be figured closely by triangulation, measuring the time it takes for a radar echo to come back from the moon should provide astronomers with a continuous check on the speed of light...