Word: travels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...popular just now. Its values were overworked. Likewise Florida movies about the wild and winsome rich have been done and overdone. This is one more about rapid motorboats with the comedy included when the heroine gets seasick. Marvelous scenery and photography helps. They always help. In travel films that's all one looks...
There is a National Student Federation, working in conjunction with a travel bureau called the Open Road Inc., which has arranged scores of tours for ardent crusaders, to whom the prospect of meeting European state officials and enjoying state banquets, lectures, or simply recognition and welcome, is irresistible. It is arranged that there shall be bountiful good fellowship between the crusaders and university students in the lands they visit. "In the walled garden of an old stone house in Normandy" many of the most faithful will gather in August to fraternize intensively and bleach all the sins of their respective...
Meteorologist William H. Hoover was recalled from a solar observatory in the Argentine to travel to Mt. Brukkaros in Southwest Africa where Dr. Charles G. Abbott of the National Geographic Society, after studying sites in the Sahara, Egypt, the Sinai Peninsula and Baluchistan, last year discovered an ideal spot for the Institution's first sun station in the Eastern Hemisphere. For three years Mr. Hoover will live, beneath a cloudless, dustless sky, in the Brukkaros crater, with a 60-ft. precipice for his doorstep and only Hottentots for neighbors. He will take daily readings from a bolometer capable...
...Yesterday a freakish stunt, today it is a mode of travel.... One should equally avoid the appearance of mendicancy and that of prosperity . . . don't wait to be invited to ride . . . walk on the wrong side of the road. ... It is bad ethics for a man to ask women motorists for a ride. However, it is permissible to look at them in an interrogative way, and if the ride is then proffered, it would be impolite to refuse...
Members of the foreign student organization are given identity cards which give them special rates on railroads and particularly courteous receptions by the students of all affiliated countries through which they may travel. The United States, not as yet being a member of the C. I. E., cannot obtain the full privileges of such identity cards for her students this summer A special arrangement, however, has been made C. I. E. whereby the identity cards issued by the American Federation will provide American students with as many of these privileges as can be given in fairness to a nonmember...