Word: trips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trip West, including stops at Buffalo, Cleveland, and Pittsburg is being planned by the Hasty Pudding Club for its annual musical show which will be staged this year in the last two weeks of April...
Long acquainted with George Hiram and rather fond of him for his past courtesies, the Cunard Line last week announced a new kind of trip abroad, for him alone. Perhaps, for steamship companies are very understanding, a special trip for Mrs. G. H. will be thought up later. But for the present, her husband is invited to go to Scotland, stay at the best hotels, play any that he chooses of 48 golf courses (riding to and from the links by motor) and return in five weeks, all for a flat sum (unstated in the advertisement). The only extra expenditures...
...trip will take two days, and will include a journey in snowmobiles from the railroad station to the destination. All the equipment used by mountain climbers will be taken along, such as ice axes, ropes and crimpons...
Four of the rarest and most recent additions to the College Library's collection of Contadina have been placed on exhibition in the display cases of the Treasure Room, where they will remain for several weeks. Two small notebooks in which Conrad kept a diary of his trip up the Congo River into the center of Africa in 1890, his first manuscript of the early chapters of "Lord Jim", and a silver match box, which he carried a great part of his life, complete the display. A small pamphlet containing notes on the diaries by Richard Curle, close friend...
...note books are in pencil and give a brief and fragmentary account of this trip which resulted in his writing the "Heart of Darkness". The journey up the African river is a significant incident in the life of the great Polish novelist in other respects also. As the story goes, Conrad as a small boy pointed to the dark area on a map of Africa and said, "Some day I will go there." At the time he made the trip, Conrad was still a sailing captain, and had yet to write his first novel. The journey so weakened his health...