Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Isotta motor cars, cases of double bottles of Grand Chambertin '87, suites at Claridge's, brief trips aboard the Bremen, a little grouse shooting ... He is on all the first-night lists, Leon at L'Aperitif salutes him as 'Highness,' he is reputed to travel with his own linen sheets, punkah wavers, court chamberlains and sauce cooks...
Israel's strangest splinter group was composed of 33,000 Palestinian Arabs, who had full rights to vote and to put up their own candidates, although their campaigning was restricted. (They need travel permits, and may not hold public meetings in areas occupied by the Israeli army.) Last week in Arab Nazareth, Moslem women complained that their religion forbade them to be photographed for identity cards or to lift their purdahs for identification at the polls in the presence of men. After some head-scratching, the government's election committee decided that Arab women could vote without having...
...destitute of historical and legendary associations; the great struggle for freedom has sanctified many a spot, and many a mountain stream and rock has its legend, worthy of the poet's pen or painter's pencil . . . And in looking over the uncultivated scene, the mind may travel far into futurity. Where the wolf roams, the plow shall glisten; on the grey crag shall rise temple and tower...
...criteria and went off to Greece, where the British government had assigned him to the Athens embassy as first secretary. After 18 months he returned to London with his standards intact and a sheaf of sketches of what he had seen. The result is a handsomely and pointedly illustrated travel book that will even delight readers to whom the word "Acropolis" recalls nothing but a tiresome, quickly forgotten history lesson...
...decision of the Administration, announced Monday, to inaugurate term leaves for assistant professors is entirely in keeping with the report of President Truman's Commission on Higher Education. That report complained that "leaves for study, travel, or research are entirely too rare in American higher education...