Word: travels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...article by the daughter of Chief Justice Taft, Mrs. Helen Taft Manning, dean of Bryn Mawr College. "It is estimated," estimated Mrs. Manning, "that nearly 500,000 Americans have crossed the Atlantic this summer. ... I should be the last to question the benefits or the delights of European travel, and yet one may without cynicism question whether the hasty progress which is being made by the greater part of the 500,000 Americans through England, France, Italy, and no doubt several other countries, will really produce much imprint on minds either young or old. Tours carefully planned to include...
...Imperial Airways (British) liner bound out of Amsterdam for London was late, or would be if her pilot took time to climb aloft to his usual travel level. The big plane sped down the low Dutch coast. Some 80 miles past the Belgian border . . . Plud! ... a wild duck, hypnotized with fright, flew straight into a propeller of the roaring frame crossing its path. The liner had to descend. A message flashed to London brought a new propeller in a few hours by air. The passengers re-embarked and were treated to the first night flight ever made by an Imperial...
...have privately offered a loan of $5,000,000 to the Bulgarian government with which to build roads, and to have secured the concession to open a motor car factory in Sofia. Thus the Bulgars will have double incitement to buy Fords, often jocosely called "road bugs," for pleasant travel in their craggy country...
...Fives, was 21. The vogue of Beaver passed two years ago, but recently, on Long Island, a similar pastime started-the game of Babbitt. One drives the highroad, keeping a sharp eye out for Babbitts.* When a Babbitt is sighted, one points a finger at him, shouting "Babbitt." Babbitts travel together, and frequently whole games can be scored from a single car. Score is kept as in tennis- fifteen, thirty, forty, game...
...unremittent labor. Premier Count Stephen Bethlen of Hungary declared himself unable to find words in which to praise fitly such generosity from a man known to be far from rich. Straightway the cheque was deposited as "The Jeremiah Smith Hungarian Scholarship Fund." Every year two Hungarian students will travel memorially to the U. S. for twelve months' study...