Word: trip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When we started our trip over the Continental Divide these trappers and the Takudhkutchin Indians, who live just south of the Eskimos, predicted that we would never be seen again. When we reached the long rapids of the Rat river, we were inclined to believe them. After losing guns and cameras in upsets in the freezing water and living on short rations, we finally reached Fort Yukon in Alaska. There was perpetual daylight during most of the trip and the mosquitoes were terrible, but the excitement and interest more than made up for our discomfort...
Meanwhile, last week, able law, yer Henry Lewis Stimson wrote to Mr. Guthrie that he could convince him of the truth of Mr. Taft's onetime statement by a ten-minute trip through the Criminal Courts, Building in Manhattan...
...sailing of the Berengaria, at the estate of Charles Edwin Mitchell, President of the National City Bank which, with more than $1,000,000,000 capital, is the biggest in the U. S. Royal Words. Prior to her departure Queen Marie was directly quoted as follows: "On this trip America has seen me. . . . Next time I want to see America. . . . "You of America seem perfectly healthy, perfectly efficient. But one can be that and still miss much. Poetry, religion, tradition and poise - do you sufficiently value them? . . . Why, you have hardly let me finish a sentence during my tour before...
Berry School. Busy Henry Ford found time to make a special trip to Rome, Ga., on visit to Rooseveltian Martha Berry and her school. Less than 25 years ago Miss Berry, Southern gentlewoman, taught Sunday School to "po' whites" of the mountain district in northwest Georgia. From this grew Berry school, unique, appealing. In the mountains of the South were 4,000,000 impoverished, illiterate descendants of sturdy English-Scotch stock. Their ancestors, not wealthy enough to own slaves, did well as farmers while the original fertility of soil remained. Ignorant of modern refertilization, they grew so poor...
Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of the onetime War Kaiser: "Vera Cruz, Mexico, welcomed me last week when I arrived there on what I called entirely a personal pleasure trip. Commentators recalled that in 1902 I toured the U. S., amid enormous crowds, from whose frenzy of cordiality I was ably protected by Rear Admiral Robley D. ("Fighting Bob") Evans, my personal friend and official escort...