Word: sojourn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the newspapers that you propose to place a tablet in Tolmezzo to the memory of my sojourn there 18 years ago. Please dedicate the money collected to some scholastic charity. I have no desire of being transformed into marble before my time. Try again...
...with the current academic year an active teacher's career of 41 years, of which 36 will have been spent in the service of Harvard University. Throughout this period Dr. von Jagemann has devoted himself especially to Germanic Philology, and though at the beginning of his sojourn among us he did no little work in the German language and literature, he has of late given no courses which undergraduates are usually prepared to take. Upon graduate students, on the other hand, he has exerted strong influence, not merely as was natural upon students in his own Department, but upon...
...Charles Beecher Warren, after a sojourn of several days at the White House, packed up his bags and went home to Detroit...
...upon the bridge, had had his last night's sleep within his bunk for he did not know how long. Into a towering gale, momentarily increasing, swept the vessel. Great seas pounded her. Within her thin steel walls reposed a freight of notables. David Warfield, the actor, returning from sojourn abroad; Julius Fleischmann, the yeast millionaire, turned racehorse breeder in his postmarital retirement; two baseball teams, the White Sox and the Giants, homing from winter play abroad; Charalambous Simopoulos, the new Greek Ambassador to the U. S., and his Secretary C. Diamantopoulos; a Manhattan cloak and suit dealer with...
Professor J. L. Coolidge with his family selected England to while away the summer months. He was a visitor at the Wembley Exposition and viewed the Henley Regatta during his sojourn, Professor Coolidge has just put in the hands of the Oxford University Press a technical book called "The Introduction to Mathematical Probability", which he believes will make its appearance in late winter...