Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British correspondent traveling in the opposite direction through this territory saw half a dozen lying stabbed on the Lahore platform, slowly dying without any help being given. Later that night, on a small siding south of Amritsar, a band of Sikhs entered his compartment and before his eyes beheaded a Moslem apparently trying to travel disguised as a Hindu. (For identification, both sides use the tried and true means of seeing whether there has been circumcision. Moslems always circumcize, the Hindus and Sikhs practically never...
...basic gasoline ration was canceled last week bringing nearly a million pleasure cars to a quick stop. Britons were forbidden to travel abroad for pleasure and 30,000 vacation trips to Switzerland were promptly cancelled. At Buckingham Palace, all plans for an overseas honeymoon for Princess Elizabeth were hastily dropped...
Mail Service. A short cut-which makes the P.C.L. shiver-is the possibility of moving one or more big-league franchises into Los Angeles or San Francisco, or both. Air travel would certainly enable Eastern teams to keep up with their schedules...
According to the up-to-date method of measuring airplane speeds (in "mach numbers"), the second flight of the Skystreak was no better than the first. During both flights it reached "mach .828." This means that both times it moved at 82.8% of the speed that sound would travel through the same air. While Commander Caldwell was flying the Skystreak, the temperature of the air was only 75° F. But when Major Carl took the controls, it was 94° F. Sound travels faster in hot air, so the speed of sound at the course moved up too, keeping...
...partisan service organization, free from-domination by any political, religions, or social group, but including all students regardless of race, sex, or political and economic belief. It should "fight for academic freedom, for student rights, and for the goal of ending discrimination." It should encourage international student exchange, student travel, and student relief; help reduce student expenses, work for increased scholarships; and promote forum and discussion groups, artistic and cultural development, and student and faculty exchange...