Word: travels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many posts. A list of several hundred postmasterial nominations was sent to that body. ¶ The same day that Congress was hearing his message from the lips of its clerks, Mr. Coolidge and his wife left Washington for Chicago to attend the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago. They traveled both ways in a drawingroom of an ordinary pullman car, and ate in the diner. (Cost of a special train $6,000; a private car $2,200. Estimated cost of the journey to the party $500. The saving is to the Government since cost is paid out of the President...
...other stars were not millions of years old, but millions of millions of years. Dr. Jeans hypothecated that our planetary system was produced by the collision or close approach of another star to the sun. Knowing the distance of the stars from each other, their speed of travel, and having an estimate of the length of life belonging-to stars and to our sun in particular, Dr. Jeans calculated the mathematical chance of the happening of such an accident as he believed produced our planetary system. The chance was so small as to make the event seem impossibly improbable...
...declared that most students travel to and from the station just before the theatre hour, presumably going downtown for an evening's entertainment, but that a number pass through the station before and after class hours on their way to and from their homes in Boston. Mid-year examinations have no great effect on the use of the subway by students, for when questioned whether he had noticed any change in the number of students about the latter part of January, the guard said that he had never noticed and particular variation during this period...
...that unpleasantness reasons that I figured out over there, on the spot. The American Team was booed in the Olympic Games largely because of its numbers, because of a psychological error on the part of those in charge, and because of the attitude of Americans in general when they travel abroad. The accusation of semi-professionalism in our athletics, of playing the game to win rather than for the sport of it, does not seem to me to hold good us a reason for jealousy or the part of the Continental nations. For with them, in a good many cases...
...nothing to do with the Olympic Games, but I cannot go past this point without saying that there were times in Paris and elsewhere this summer when I was actually ashamed of being an American!. And I have felt many times, too that no American should be allowed to travel abroad until he had proven his ability to act as a gentleman under all circumstances. I do not wonder any more at any dislike or suspicion or hostility that crops out against Americans, whether at the Olympic Games or in the Place de I'Opera...