Word: sojourner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Salzburg Sojourn...
Fencing is another popular activity, and is offered throughout the year. The return of fencers to the Radcliffe Yard, from their winter's sojourn in the Gym, is a customary indication that spring is just a few weeks away...
...more important is the traditional function of the Yard as an intellectual respite from the hurried pace of the classrooms. For over three centuries, students have lounged, even sat under the elms, and have no doubt drawn spiritual enrichment from their sojourn...
When he was 16, his father sent him to England to learn "good manners." Young Zadkine came home with long hair and a volume of Plutarch, persuaded his father that Paris was the appropriate place for him, and sculpture the right profession. Except for a World War II sojourn in Manhattan, he has lived in Paris ever since, a tweedy, pipe-smoking little man hammering away at sculptures that were often twice his size. Over the years, his Montparnasse studio has become forested with carvings, and they have spilled over into half the museums of Europe. Recently, he was honored...
...world which poured messages of congratulation, flowers and presents upon her. On New Year's Day a Swiss photographer was admitted to the Mont-Choisi Clinic to take pictures of a radiant Rita with Princess Yasmin on the pillow beside her, sound asleep. Ahead of Rita lay a sojourn in Aly's 15-room chalet at Gstaad, the winter sports resort, where she would rest and recuperate under the care of a special masseur and the fond eyes, of course, of Aly, his pressagent and anybody who could read a newspaper...