Word: travels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wisconsin. All week they brushed the forests, slowly, monotonously. Everything dripped and the rust-colored road from Lake Superior to small Brule, the inland riverbank settlement, developed treacherous potholes despite the thousands of dollars Wisconsin had just spent to make it a safe road for a President to travel. An Army truck transporting mail-of-state foundered and tipped over. A light passenger car transporting a heavy, round-shouldered figure out of the dismal wilderness, slithered into a rut, stuck, had to be dragged out by horses...
...very retiring disposition. Now I expect to make friends by the thousands from now on. I had disliked travel, avoided crowds and hated conventions, but Rotary is changing...
...Phelps, '87, has compiled a series of suggestions for summer reading. Included in this number are twenty-three novels, several books of poetry and drama, and twenty-six biographies. There are also listed publications on sport, religion, general topics on the subject of books themselves, as well as numerous travel and social history works...
...fine, where Cooks will take you, it must be safe to go. Last week this largest tourist firm announced, for the first time, that they will hereafter make travel arrangements "for all those who may wish to go to Soviet Russia...
...There is now no question about man's use of the air as a medium of transportation and communication. The events of the year have awakened public interest to the convenience, safety and advantage of travel through the air. For years the best engineering brains of all countries have been directed to improving the machine, in designs of plane and efficiency of engines. Would that a small portion of the time and money thus spent in developing the machine had been spent in improving our knowledge of the medium in which the machine, like man, must function. The importance...