Word: travels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nebraska was an open prairie. For 430 miles from east to west long undulating plains stretched out like the level wheat lands of Russia. Slow-flowing, muddy rivers ran through the plains; villages were few and far apart, travel difficult. Nebraska was a state before there were people there; in 1860 the land where Lincoln, the capital, now stands was open plain. The first settlers found a continuous, nearly flat plateau, covered with long red, shaggy grass. Buffaloes ran the plains, wallowed in hardened out water holes. The winters were hard and short, the summers hot and long. In this...
After six weeks of successful operation of its three passenger travel-air plane purchased last fall, the Harvard Flying Club is offering all students in the college interested in flying an opportunity to try out for membership in the Club, which has hitherto been restricted to men privately elected...
...arriving at Southampton July 2. They will sail from London by a connecting steamer direct to Leningrad, arriving there about July 7. In Moscow they will remain for a week and from there will go to Moscow to spend a similar period. From this point on each group will travel independently...
This plan, combining the pleasures of travel, out of door labor and economy, is excellent and if it proves practicable it might well be extended. Such an arrangement could, of course, be concluded only on the grounds that no laboring men are deprived of work, for however essential travel may be to a college student, a paying job is an even greater necessity to the laborer...
...report, last week, from Moscow that the local French Ambassador, M. Jean Herbette, has openly professed Bolshevism, substituted a seal of his own design for the French seal with which he should stamp his documents, and finally evaded several times on the plea of ill health and inability to travel intimations from Foreign Minister Briand that he must return to Paris...