Word: travels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cholera, furiously fatal intestinal disease, is as old as populated India; and until 1817 never left the home grounds. In that year it spread East; with the increase of travel in later years it spread West, invading the Americas in 1826 and 1873. The great pandemic of 1879 to 1883 threw a scare into the civilized world, sent scientists to microscope and test tube, sent Robert Koch* into Egypt from which he emerged with the Vibrio cholerae, cause of all the trouble. Work on the troublesome organism has not ceased since that time. During the last epidemic the British Government...
...first road performance will take place tonight at the Academy of Music of Northampton. Sunday the cast will travel westward, and on Monday it will give its second road performance at the Eighth Street Theatre in Chicago...
...Vatican, and knelt and kissed the hand of Pius XI. Mrs. Warner's father, in whose presidential chances the Vatican is reported to have no interest, was pleased to hear of his daughter's devoutness and, when urged to comment, gently turned the conversation aside, into travel. "Distance doesn't mean much to the younger generation," said Governor Smith. "Here am I, past fifty, and it was only a few years ago that I traveled as far as Canada...
...group will travel to Fitchburg by train, and then meet after a few miles the trail recently opened by the New England Trails Conference, which runs over wooded and hilly country from Mount Watatick to Mount Wachusett. The hike will be about 14 miles...
...American child and the bewitched doll, accompanied by a little Rumanian shepherd child, travel through Rumania. Rumania would not hold such charm for American children if the Queen of Rumania didn't live there. It was not easy lo describe myself, but I hope I succeeded...