Word: treks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intrepid team of astronomers from Indiana University who made the long trek to find out the exact location on the map of the geographical center of U.S. population [TIME, Oct. 8] might have saved the wear & tear on their seagoing sextants by consulting a member of the local Boy Scout troop...
...international affairs, and tie this in with courses already taught at Dartmouth. Either the New York Times or Herald Tribune is required daily reading. Visiting lecturers make up the bulk of the course, and such men as Harvard's I.A. Richards, Crane Brinton, and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. trek New Hampshirewards each year to help prepare the Dartmouth senior for the world outside...
...Irmgard Seefried, sopranos; Anton Dermota, tenor; Erich Kunz, baritone; Ludwig Weber, bass; chorus of the Society of Friends of Music, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan conducting; Columbia, 6 sides LP). The kind of crack performance, with its own unique Gemütlichkeit, that makes music lovers trek to Salzburg every summer. A new Marriage of Figaro, with the same orchestra and conductor and some of the same cast, offers more of the same happy spirit. Both recordings: excellent...
...over the little railroad bridge that spans the river at Lowu, on the border of Hong Kong, the Christian missionaries come plodding out of Communist China. Sometimes only one or two at a time, sometimes in groups as large as 40 or more, fagged and haggard from their long trek out of the interior, women as well as men, Protestants and Catholics, French, Belgians, Germans, Italians and Americans...
Like some of the Jews she sings of, Shoshana made the trek from Yemen to Palestine as a child of three. At 13 she persuaded her family to let her quit elementary school, go to a dramatics academy in Tel Aviv. Soon she was starring in school folk reviews, appearing regularly on Tel Aviv's radio station. At 18 she had a national reputation as a folk singer, was giving recitals and appearing in concerts with symphony orchestras...