Word: travels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arrangements with the Cunard Steamship Line whereby the entire third cabin of the "Saxonia" has been reserved exclusively for college men on the sailing of June 21 from New York, and September 6 from Southampton and Cherbourg. The plan is distinctly not that of a tour, and allows the travelers more than two months of leisurely and unrestricted travel...
...improve his character, be it learning to curb his emotions, or to give to the poor, makes him a better and a more successful minister. To be a worthy minister, a man must be fine all the way through, whether at home or in the church or in travel. A lawyer can be deeply immoral, and yet be an eminent jurist; a surgeon can be a scoundrel, and yet be very successful with the lancet. But a minister is in everybody's eyes, and must therefore be pure in every respect. If he falls once, his career is gone...
...Planes. Four U. S. Army Douglas cruisers?heavier-than-air machines?left Santa Monica, Calif., to travel westward around the world. They expect to approach Los Angeles from the East on or before July 17. 'Round-the-world has not been done before in any kind of flying machine...
...Long-distance relaying is usually done by "stepping up" the wavelength of the transmitting stations from a wavelength of a few hundred metres to several thousand metres, by vacuum tube amplifiers. These waves travel much more rapidly and, without losing their power, activate the antennae of the relay stations, which again transform them into a shorter wavelength" for amateur reception...
...mind that similar experiments have not been made among the generality of college students, for whom, one fears, the age of accountability may be placed lar beyond twelve. Lives there a man in any of the Newtons, for example, who has not found that it is possible to travel from Harvard Square, with transfer, to almost any outlying point for only five cents instead of the legally ordained ten? And yet to argue, as Mr. Shepherd probably would, that all these souls will degenerate into safe-crackers, or that they would under temptation steal any sum on which they could...