Word: travels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...students will live in selected homes in the visited country and can make friends, study the customs of the land, and practice the spoken language. Each of the undergraduates will be enabled by the scholarship to travel with one of the groups sent by the Experiment in International Living, of Putney, Vermont. This organization has sponsored student excursions to various countries of the world in the interest of international understanding...
Gordon N. Ray, for photostats, secretarial assistance and travel expenses in connection with the preparation for publication in four volumes of "The Collected Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray...
...California gang look like dun-quiet Quakers), went in for fancy formations like the Suzy-Q shift. Coach Simms got front-page publicity by telling big-name colleges that they were hypocrites, that his team was frankly professional (though he gave them nothing but "room, education, travel and all the food they...
...Travel Lecturer Burton Holmes: "Nature, I imagine, did not in igneous wantonness upheave the mountains of southern Germany, but reared them thoughtfully for Mr. Holmes within the range of his lenses...
...cards he earns the thin security of a dead Austrian's doctored passport, works in a Viennese amusement park until Anschluss drives him to Paris. For young Ludwig Kern life is tougher: no papers, no such talent for moneymaking, an incautious enough heart to fall in love and travel with young Jewish Ruth Holland. Peddling toilet water (illegally) they move from Vienna to Prague, to Vienna, through Switzerland, to France, to Geneva, at times together, at times apart, in & out of jail, sickness, food, shelter and luck, at length to find relative peace, if not security, in the tolerance...