Word: travels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scholarships Not to Include Travel...
During the course of the autumn the Notre Dame team has traveled 7,500 miles to play seven games. Travel-weary, game-weary, it lined up against Nebraska and was beaten, partly by its own faulty passing, partly by Nebraska's alert secondary defense, and partly by the punting of the opposing Captain, Edward Weir. Score: Nebraska 17, Notre Dame...
...above the door handles of antique bronze four rosewood panels were inlaid with little ivory panels showing a sedan-chair of the 16th Century, a Pickwickian stagecoach, a Japanese rickshaw and an Egyptian whatnot, to remind the fortunate who ride within that there are less comfortable ways to travel. For the convenience of any lady who might be so ill-advised as to forfeit a quiet walk for a ride in this car, there was a vanity case of tooled Venetian leather stretched upon wood, in which was set a Wedgewood cameo...
...graduated, wrote dramas which were never played, books which were never published, until a novel, The Improvisatore, brought him suddenly to fame. In his spare moments he had written a few fairy tales, idle things for which he had no regard. He wanted to be a dramatist. He traveled through Europe; after his triumphant visit to England, Charles Dickens saw him off from Ramsgate Pier. His plays were refused. People asked for more fairy stories. In 1847 and 1848 two new volumes were published. He wrote a romance, a book of travel; they failed to sell. "Fairy stories," readers begged...
...these glaring examples of young men, and perhaps, too, of young women, who without any visible means of support, travel around the world with all the luxuries of clothes and comfort and pleasure as would the man of financial means, and who compete week in and week out in all kinds of sports competitions, and who not only hold themselves out as amateurs, but are more or less accepted by the governing body of their particular sports as such, that disturbs to the point of causes many who believe as much and more in honesty than they do in amateurism...