Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...critics of the current H.A.A. policy that rules out games with Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth, the announcement of a game with Rochester, which has never before played Harvard, proved something of a bombshell. The travel situation had been named as the cause for the ban on the Yale game, and it was pointed out by some observers that Rochester was much farther away than Yale and involved a bigger transportation problem...
Reason: to expose youngsters to the broadening effect of travel; to expose them to the problems that other people have; to show them that whether we like it or not, all of the good ideas in this world didn't come out of Brooklyn, or Texas, or San Diego...
Four thousand miles from Independence, Mo., Harry Truman threw a wet blanket over fellow Americans' eagerness to travel. Congressmen who wanted to widen their horizons by trips overseas during the recess were told by the President they would have to pay their own expenses ($725.65 via A.T.C. New York to Paris...
...they were not quite in that land nor of it. (Their new home was declared an "Emergency Refugee Shelter" so its guests would not be subject to immigration laws.) Quartered in old Fort Ontario behind a fence of restrictions, they could get only six-hour passes. They could not travel farther than 20 miles. They had to be in at night. Their barracks apartments, partitioned with wallboard, were better than a concentration camp, but had little privacy. They shared bathrooms and the mess hall...
Right now the daily trips to the office are becoming more & more irksome. He is longing to get away from the job, to travel, study, read. Whether he does or not may well depend on the stuff that the dream is made of. For the moment that is under Lady Rothermere...