Adventurous and wildernessy? Cultural and urban? Then decide how much time you wish to devote — or, more accurately, how much time your company is willing to allow you to devote — to your vacation […]

Touch the contact to ground and read the number again.

When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should—so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.

King's Messenger, 1918-1940: Memoirs of a Silver Greyhound. By George P. Antrobus, O.B.E., King's Foreign Service Messenger 1918-1940. London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd. Price 10s. 6d. net. … The great European express trains have an air of mystery and romance about them. Truth to tell, this is but ill-deserved. Except over the French portion of their journey they have no right to the title of express—he was writing of conditions before the great speed-up of the last decade— ….