Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teacher of theoretical physics, he was plunging along the labyrinths opened up by the master (his mathematical treatises include an exposition of Einstein theory), but with many a nostalgic glance over his shoulder at Maxwell and classical mathematics. Now a gentle, grey-haired, square-jawed Jew with a shuffling walk and a husky voice, dislodged from Göttingen by the Nazi revolt, he lives quietly in Zurich, Switzerland with his wife and children, has turned down a professorship offered in Belgrade...
Equipped with thick muscles, the suggestion of a paunch and a brisk, business-like walk, ruddy-faced Jack Crawford bears no resemblance whatever to the tall, somewhat languid youths of whom the U. S. first ten is largely composed. For a long time his game, too, failed to resemble theirs in efficiency. An excitable temperament and inability to control his shots held him back. Crawford started to play tennis on his father's 1,200-acre farm at Albury, New South Wales, took it up more seriously when his family moved to Sidney. In 1924, aged 16, he played...
...patron of Boy Scouts, but in his own fashion, wealthy and eccentric President Juan Vicente Gomez took small interest last week in the Fourth World Scout Jamboree (see p. 18). Four years ago he offered $10,000 to the first Venezuelan Boy Scout who should return from a walk to every South American country. Last week the seamy featured old President received with relish the news that Scout Carlos Arturo Zembrana is still walking still the favorite to win the $10,000 prize. Aged 11, Scout Zembrana left Venezuela in 1929, tramped across the wilds of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru...
...That is perhaps something off the minds of the present Administration." He explained how he spends his time in retirement: "I get up fairly early and take a look from the Palo Alto place into Santa Clara Valley. It's very pleasant. Then I have breakfast and a walk. Then I get my mail and look over the newspapers. Then I take another long look at the valley, thanking Providence I'm in California. Then I sit down and think things over and spend the rest of the day laughing and laughing and laughing." Up to him stepped...
...Once, as quite a young child going out for a walk with my nurse, I shouted: 'Three cheers for the Holy Ghost...