Word: overing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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On the way over, there were language classes on some of the boats to brush up fading high school French and German; on the trip back, one boat's students were teaching English--to 200 DP's headed for Canada. Meetings and conferences sprang up in abundance. The moment one...
And sometimes they succeeded in looking extremely typical. The typical American college boy abroad in his tourist uniform looked something like this: He had a crew cut, khaki pants, and a seersucker coat with the green edge of a U. S. passport showing above the edge of his inside breast...
The typical American girl was well-dressed, with new-look skirts (many European women have not converted), and page-boy hairdo. She carried her valuables in a handbag with an over- the-shoulder strap, a device unheard of abroad. Gentlemen on the street would stop to give her a long...
The moment American students were deposited on the shores of the Old World, they began to come scropper over strange foreign customs and to get themselves entangled in other countries' red tape. They ordered the wrong things off the menu, got the wrong directions for the wrong places, overstrained their...
In addition federal tax laws require the payment of additional tax of 20 per cent on resale of a ticket above the original purchase price. State law prohibits the unlicensed "business" of selling rights of admission to public amusements at above 50 cents over the original cost.