Word: trip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wellesley concert, which was to have taken place in the "Barn" on the evening of April 7, has been postponed until next year due to the quarantine now in force. Plans are being formulated for a longer schedule next year with a possible Western trip to include concerts in Buffalo, Cleveland and Chicago...
...third speaker was Mr. W. J. Bingham '16, former coach of the University team. He told about his trip to England this winter and related several of his interesting experiences while arranging for the meet between Harvard-Yale and Cambridge-Oxford teams, to be held this summer in England. Among other things, he said that it had been decided to add the pole vault to the list of events, and to substitute a three-mile run in place of the two-mile, which was previously planned...
...have been studying the problem. Large white globes waste two-thirds of their illumination up- wards, are injurious to the eyes, endanger motor traffic. Properly di-rected lights would make the roadways and sidewalks stand out more clearly. Albert Einstein, the German, arriving at Kantara, Egypt, after a trip to Japan with his wife, announced that he had made a new discovery which may create a greater sensation than his theory of relativity. He is not telling what it is yet, except that it concerns the relation of the earth's power of attraction to terrestrial magnetism...
Seward Prosser, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bankers Trust Company, Manhattan: "I missed a trip to Palm Beach in order to act in the movies with Dwight W. Morrow and Thomas W. Lament of J. P. Morgan & Co. The picture was for the benefit of the Englewood Hospital, so we did our best to register anxiety about the finances of the baby ward...
...Arthur Conan Doyle: " When interviewed in regard to my proposed trip to America, I remarked that Americans are too interested in table-tipping and other material phenomena and not in the real mes- sage of spiritualism...