Search Details

Word: inns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...what do the Wolfs think of the Bob Newhart show, the television series about a proprietor of a Vermont inn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Vermont: Keeping Up with Keeping Inns | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

...said that the Corvair was a little before his time, then sidestepped his interlocutors' curiosity about the trouble down at the local dealership. And what was it like to run an inn? Does it strain a marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Vermont: Keeping Up with Keeping Inns | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

...been a high school teacher in California, a respected one, and he had enjoyed the classroom but abhorred the system, for reasons he did not expand. He quit after 24 years and withdrew $40,000 from his state teachers' retirement account. He paid $103,000 for the inn, called Greenhurst. He was 54 years old. Barbara, a registered nurse, was 44. Greenhurst was 90. Bethel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Vermont: Keeping Up with Keeping Inns | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

Memphis-based Holiday Inns, the biggest chain in the U.S. with some 1,700 hotels, is taking the theory a step further. The company has spent more than $200 million building eight Crowne Plaza hotels, its new line of cushy inns with rooms priced at about 20% more per night than the average $42 Holiday Inn room. Offering its guests such little extras as a free morning paper and a toiletry kit, the company will portray Crowne Plaza as luxury at reasonable rates. Spacious rooms designed for business travelers will be available in another Holiday Inn chain called Embassy Suites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Room at the Top | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

...every village, town and city from Wollongong to Jiggalong, car, bus, train and ferry horns blared and ululated from daybreak on. Crude posters with messages like YOU BEAUTIES and WE KEELED THEM sprouted outside homes, shops and public buildings. At Brisbane's Crest International Hotel, the Early American Inn became the Australia II Inn, its Statue of Liberty decked with the Australian flag, a stuffed koala bear placed in an arm. The stock exchanges saw a surge in shares connected with any enterprise of Perth Entrepreneur Alan Bond, Australia II's backer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Our Cup Runneth Under | 10/10/1983 | See Source »

Previous | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | Next