Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cure. From a friend he heard about a decrepit little summer resort at Warm Springs, Ga. One young paralytic had braved its mosquito-plagued country hotel, bathed in its warm mineral waters and partially regained the use of his legs. Mr. Roosevelt went there first in 1924. After churning about in the pool, he found that his leg muscles felt a little stronger. Thereafter Warm Springs became his great hobby. He spent a large part of his personal fortune on developing the place into a sanatorium. Edsel Ford gave an enclosed pool, others contributed to make Warm Springs a permanent...
...there. There is an enormous and impoverished colony of White Russian emigres (many of whom are supplanting Britain's tall, bearded Sikhs as policemen). The city is popularly known as the Paris of the East, boasts an excellent golf course, race track, yacht club, an enormous number of disreputable resorts and the Shanghai Club, with the longest bar in the world. So popular is Shanghai with officials of the Nanking Government as a week-end resort that tourists wishing to travel to Nanking, eight hours away, Sunday night must book sleeper accommodations weeks in advance...
...face of voluntary cancellation of reparations by the European states the American people could not insist on payment of the War debts and thus appear in history as the only profiteer of the War. Is it believable that the Americans could resort to hostile acts in the economic and exchange fields? The economy of the world is solid; whoever in any part of the world damages it damages himself; customs reprisals call for counter reprisals .... The world needs the United States, but the United States needs Europe and the world as never before...
...medical and legal professions become overcrowded and opportunities in business decline, hope rises for American secondary education. For many years high-school teaching has been scorned, treated as a last resort, by the bulk of male college graduates. Except for a few earnest men who saw the great need of our secondary schools and like the country preacher were willing to give themselves to the humble labor the better students preferred University teaching or non-academic pursuits. Many able women took up teaching without reluctance and made notable contributions, but a preponderance of woman teachers has its disadvantages. Nothing could...
Four hours by car, an hour and a half by plane from Hollywood, Agua Caliente is the most elaborate pleasure resort in North America. It was organized three years ago, largely by 34-year-old James Crofton who had previously been a racetrack barker at the squalid little border town of Tijuana, three miles farther...