Word: travels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upstairs. When the President awakens in his four-poster mahogany bed, his eyes may travel out over the verdure of the White House park to the massy shaft of the Washington monument, which gleams pink at sunrise. If he goes to his south window and peers to the right, he may also see a corner of the State, War & Navy Building. In his room is the bed that was built for Abraham Lincoln, so huge (6½ ft. by 9 ft.) that four Roosevelt children could be comfortably tucked away in it crosswise...
Straight from the shoulder was H. R. H.'s next thrust: "I travel a good deal, and sometimes come up against this somewhat sad state of affairs?a British community, many thousands of miles away, anxious to buy British goods but unable to do so because those goods are not suitable or practicable to the locality...
...elevator is sometimes called Aufzug (Uptrain) in Germany, more often Fahrsthl (Travel-chair), but whatever it is called, it is always exclusive. Apartment house elevators are few and far between. Service elevators are unknown. Such lifts as there are are proudly marked "Nur für Herrschaften"-"For Gentry Only!" It is always understood, and generally written in the lease, that no messengers, delivery boys, or servants may ride in the lift except when the servant is accompanied by the employer or the employer's dog, cat, etc. That has been the rule, but last week...
...feet long, lined with real grandstands. Twenty mechanical horses ran at one time, drawn by invisible threads from specially built, sensitive electric motors. Each motor had a rheostat, for speed variations. When a race was about to begin the rheostats were set so that each horse would travel at a speed proportionate to its "past performance record" (.0 to 1,000). Then a so-called Chance Machine distributed ball bearings so that ten added impulses were given haphazardly among the horses by a second series of electric motors. Thus any horse might suddenly frisk ahead, outdistancing rivals with a higher...
...close with the Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangular debate on April 26. This debate, the question of which is to be decided later, is to be held on the Oxford Plan, each team having three speakers, with the decision being rendered by the audience. The negative teams will travel. Harvard's going to New Haven and Princeton's coming here...