Word: travels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coast Conference, Rose Bowl host, automatically picks its own conference champion (probably Washington State this year) to represent the West. But this year's present two top-ranking Eastern teams-Georgia Tech and Boston College-hail from some 3,000 miles away and may not be permitted to travel across the continent just to make a football holiday. Possible alternate: the University of Tulsa...
...last week Justin Brooks Atkinson packed his pipes and tobacco, a few travel necessities and a copy of Hamlet ("for relaxation") total 56 lb.-and hopped off for Chungking. There he will be resident correspondent for the Times...
...Army Engineers, who did the building, "road open" means that trucks can travel up & down as fast as 25 m.p.h. Even the spring thaw will stop travel only temporarily, they hope. Ice, breaking in the 200 bridged rivers, will take out many of their bridges. But the Engineers are prepared. Crews will stand by to replace wrecked bridges...
Grinning his deathless grin and fit enough to travel soon was Captain Edward Vernon Rickenbacker. Reviewing his 24 days on a raft, he recalled the "nearness of death." Said the indestructible Eddie: "I know I came within hearing distance of the Old Fellow this trip because his approach is always unmistakable. One hears beautiful, soft music, and everything is extremely pleasant-just as Heaven should...
...talk to them the foreman need not travel across a long room and shout instructions. Instead he taps a shoulder near him, points to the man he wants. This man taps the next shoulder in the silent grapevine to the wanted worker. Then the foreman wigwags his instructions: A clenched fist pulled down above his head means drill press. Palms close together in front mean to the mute that his measurements are too short. Palms apart: he has erred in the opposite direction. The mutes need no bells to warn them of overhead crane and boom movements. They watch moving...