Word: travels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...WILLIS: Why, of course the Senator is correct about that. Senators travel upon trains as other citizens do. I submit to any Senator who has been traveling in the past 25 years whether there is any change in the situation. Drunkenness used to be common upon the trains. A score of times I have been spoken to by conductors upon the railroad trains in the State of Ohio, before prohibition went into effect, begging me to do what I could then, as a member of the general assembly and subsequently as a private citizen, to exterminate this traffic because they...
...Vatican is somewhat resigned to the confiscation of the Papal States by Italy; would be content if Italy would allot in fee simple, free from secular suzerainty, a narrow strip of land from Rome to the Tiber estuary, so that the Pope could have his own seaport, could travel abroad without touching Italian soil...
...population than Philadelphia, St. Louis or Buenos Aires, and in the great hordes of its citizens it numbers 5,000 boys and girls who are students at the College of the City of New York. Every morning these students have to get up and hurry to the subway and travel many miles to their classes. The amount they spend a year on car fare alone would pay the interest on two million dollars. They waste their time, strength, money, in the subway. So said public-spirited citizens last week, leading up to the statement that Brooklyn needs a college...
...Fencing, swimming. †Travel, reading, walking...
WHEN AMERICA WAS YOUNG- John T. Faris-Harper ($6). Early American topics like housing, commerce, education, travel, holidays, pirates, each brought out by a series of quotations from contemporaneous descriptions...