Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peering down his bombsight. I sat in the seat directly behind him with my knees in his back, peering down below and watching the yellow snake of the Yangtze drawing closer. Over to the right high up on a mountain, appeared the black spot of Kuling, formerly a summer resort of foreigners. Here it was that on July 19, 1937, Chiang Kai-shek made his historic speech declaring China would fight. Beyond on the northern bank rose the Tapieh Mountains, the great Chinese guerrilla base that stretches almost to Hankow...
...Cooks In New Orleans. Oldtimers say they have never seen New Orleans, always a merry town, play so hard. The beach resort at Lake Pontchartrain did more business before July 4 than it had done all last year. New Orleans matrons, hard put to find servants, laughed last week at the story of a housewife who went to the Negro slums to look for a cook. She asked two Negro women sitting on a rickety porch if they knew of one, was told: "No. ma'am; we're looking for one ourselves...
...appease the males who have had to resort to window tapping and whistling under the windows of the Yard dorms for their dates, the Social Union yesterday opened up Weld 28 as Common Room and meeting place for girls and their friends. Complete with furniture from the Union, and a telephone it is hoped that it will replace the steps of Weld as the site for parlor dates. The telephone number is Eli. 8068 and phone messages will be received there
...Traymore Hotel, Atlantic City's famed, 27-year-old landmark, was one of the resort's four hotels (plus huge Municipal Convention Hall) taken over by the Army last week, stripped of its lush furnishings and converted into soldiers' barracks. Luxurious as a palace in a Little Nemo dream, its interiors resembling a 1915 movie's conception of the height of luxury, it will be crammed with 2,000 Air Corps cadets, who will sleep on Army cots in the Traymore's 638 rooms...
With a view toward these mixed swimming groups, authorities have no doubt that the record crowd of 1200 which flooded the Athletic Building on July 2 will soon be surpassed, and that the North Shore will dwindle into secondary importance as a swimming resort...