Word: vias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Routes. The Lufthansa Co., largest of European flying corporations, was selling advance reservations last week for the opening flight of its Berlin-to-Peking via Moscow line...
...Harvard student descends into the bowels of the earth, drops a dime into a box, and enters a coffin-like case of steel. He is whirled over the Charles to Park Street Under in ten minutes, almost before he realizes it, to be spat up on the surface again via an escalator...
Into Civita Vecchia steamed the S. S. Ryndam. Off trouped the undergraduate body of the University Afloat, 500 strong. In nearby Rome, Pope Pius XI prepared himself to receive an itinerant band of which he had heard: how it had sailed from Manhattan, via Panama, to Los Angeles, Yokohama, Shanghai, Siam, Egypt, Constantinople, Venice; how its members had studied manfully between excursions and receptions on shore; how its full-size college faculty had imparted learning, not only by lectures but by object and project lessons in the countries visited; how a daily newspaper was published aboard ship, edited...
Thus, with true British matter-of-fact farewells, Sir Samuel and his Air Lady entered the Hercules which vanished into the zenith five minutes later. Courageous, nonchalant, they had set out to inaugurate the 6,000-mile commercial airway from the Empire Capital via Cairo to Delhi, the Indian Capital...
...Pioneering was over. Wireless telegraphy was established as an art and science of significance to all the world. The King of Italy sent a message from Spezia via Kronstadt to the Tsar of Russia and both decorated me, I was given the cruiser Carlo Alberto to cruise upon and experiment further. The freedom of Rome was mine when I visited there in 1903- a modern 'triumph.' I instituted the first ocean daily newspaper, on the S. S. Campania, sent press despatches and many messages for friends back and forth between the Old and New Worlds...