Word: trip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crusade is Protestant. A committee headed by Charles S. Macfarland (of the Federal Council of Churches) and Bishop Manning of New York is in charge. It has offered to Sunday School children a prize for the best essay on The Meaning of the Holy Places. The prize is a trip to Jerusalem...
Rene Lacoste defeated Jean Borotra for the Christmas cup in covered court play offered by the Sporting Club of France, score 6-4, 6-2, 4-6, 3-6, 6-2. In an interview he attributed much of his success to his American trip of last summer. Said he: "I didn't know what tennis was before I entered those American tournaments...
...renovated Hasty Pudding Club House, and two performances on following days for undergraduates, the 1924 Show will travel west to Chicago, and return to Boston for its final appearance playing in Washington, New York, and Providence on the road. The omission of Baltimore from this year's trip has been due to the indication that a visit there during Holy Week would not be as advisable as the contemplated appearance in Chicago...
Among other adventures, he was in 1907-8 the first American to cross through the heart of Tierra del Fuego. On this trip through this desolate stormy country to the tip of Cape Horn, Colonel Furlong discovered the most primitive people in the world, who, he says, are still living in the Stone Age. He visited the southern most town in the world and also several Indian tribes which still retained some very curious customs...
...collections which Colonel Furlong made on this trip are now in the Peabody Musum at Harvard, together with his Patagonian collection...