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Word: acadia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bermuda Islands attracted 79,856 visitors. Of these, well over 90% were Americans, but only 1,088 tourists sailed there on U. S. ships. Early this year, in an attempt to divert U. S. tourist dollars into U. S. pockets, Eastern Steamship Lines decided to run the steamer Acadia (cruise capacity 400) on a weekly schedule to Bermuda, competing chiefly with the British-owned Furness Bermuda Line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Bermuda Lodgings | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

Last March, to the alluring slogan "Your Ship Is Your Hotel," the Acadia began sailing into St. George, tying up, and keeping house for its passengers. For small-budget vacationists this was just the ticket, and Eastern's idea clicked profitably. Island innkeepers, as well as Furness Bermuda, which controls three hotels, were alarmed. They could easily imagine Bermuda harbors dotted with ship-hotels, the inns covered with cobwebs. Last June they had a bill introduced in Bermuda's Legislature barring ship-hotels from St. George and Hamilton harbors. But when the Governor-General, Lieut.-General Sir Reginald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Bermuda Lodgings | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

Professor Dawson received his A.B. from Acadia University, Nova Scotia, and a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1918. Following graduation he taught at Mt. Allison University, New Brunswick, and at New York University until 1929, when he joined the Harvard faculty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DAWSON SUCCEEDS REDFIELD AS HEAD OF BIOLOGICAL LAB | 12/20/1935 | See Source »

...Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, the 282-year-old bones of D'Aulnay Charnisay who ruled Acadia "as if he were King"' after he had driven Charles de La Tour from the country, were found by excavators and reburied last week under the steps of the Port Royal Church as his will requested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 10, 1932 | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

Ralph Hartley Wetmore, assistant professor of Botany since 1926, will become associate professor next September. He received his S.B. from Acadia University, Nova Scotia, in 1921, his A.M. from Harvard in 1922, and his Ph.D. here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROMOTIONS ARE BESTOWED ON TEN FACULTY MEMBERS | 4/22/1932 | See Source »

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