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Wednesday, July 29--Rail via Simpion Pass to Milan and Genoa...
Thursday, July 30--Via Pisa to Rome...
Tuesday, August 11--Rail via Milan to Lugano...
...good rotor ship Buckau, with her whirling iron towers, came to anchor in Leith harbor. She had spent approximately six days at sea, bearing a cargo from Danzig via the Kiel Canal?about three days to Kiel and three days from Kiel to Leith. Her time was not good ?tramp steamers make it in about two-thirds the time?but, during the entire voyage, she encountered storm and head winds that put her to a severe test. Moreover, during a good part of the voyage, she used her auxiliary Diesel engine...
...radio has displaced cuffs, shoestrings, hatbands, handkerchiefs, and fingernails as the source of information. Three hours of torment and wracking brains are changed to three hours of pleasure and comfortable writing at dictation. The examined becomes the amanuensis, while roommates or friends supply a polished and complete examination via the air route. The ingenious student of Strasbourg little realizes that he has transformed the only trying period of collegiate existence into a few pleasant hours of scribbling...