Word: travels
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...entirely separate organization from the A. T. & T. which has to do with Transatlantic and European telephone business. The International Company is coming to Harvard this year to take on men in much the same way as is the Bell system and offers an opportunity for work and travel in Continental Europe...
...mention the proposal to convert Mount Weather, Va., into a weekend retreat for future presidents. You state that this property is 55 miles from Washington "over fair dirt roads." This is news to your readers who live on the main road between these points and who travel daily over the paved State highway which covers the greater part of the distance. Between Leesburg, county seat of Loudoun County, and Bluemont at the foot of the mountain, there remain a few short stretches of "fair dirt roads" broken by stretches of paving through the villages. We venture the prophecy that...
...synthesis of a lifetime of reading and travel into a plausible system for directing civilization; as such it may appeal to Harvard men unsatisfied with the specific details of daily classes and the restricted subjects of their theses. For those who like to discuss in leisurely fashion the facts and philosophies of history and their bearing on current problems of religion and on such personal problems as fraternities, and who wish to formulate standards of judgment and conduct, this book should be a stimulus, presenting as it does much wide-ranging information with the common sense of an American gentleman
...Freshman debating team will travel to Exeter on March 23 to meet the Exeter Academy speakers, it was announced after a meeting of the Freshman Debating Council yesterday. This will be the first debate for the Freshman team this year...
With the blight of the hour examination hanging heavy over Cambridge and the coming of a few warm days to make its inhabitants begin to count the weeks to June, the Vagabond began to yield to the call of the travel-book. For a wandering spirit like his, the confines of Cambridge are at times too narrow and when with a magic carpet made of a few postage stamps he can secure free passage to any part of the globe there are few better preventives for spring fever...