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Word: sojourns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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What, if you please, is the drink commonly termed "the lead shot"? In my rather brief sojourn of two years here, I have yet to drink this "fearful mixture of the sweetest and heaviest syrups of the soda fountain." Yet I frequent the soda fountains of Exeter with much regularity. But, being rather sceptical by nature and decidedly curious and feeling that my reputation as a soda fountain connoisseur was at stake, I made rather extensive inquiries, but regret to say that my search was unrewarded, for every storekeeper and proprietor in Exeter answered my demand for Exeter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1931 | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

...week the squad will be free to do as it likes. Whiteside feeling that the danger of overtraining is greatest at this point in the season. On Sunday the University, Jayvee, and Freshman crews, substitutes, coaches, managers, attendants, and launch-drivers will leave for the three-week sojourn on the Thames before the New London regatta on June...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRACTICE IS OVER FOR CREWS UNTIL VISIT TO RED TOP | 5/28/1931 | See Source »

...most important is the element of friendly contact and personal acquaintance between statesmen which have developed in the course of conferences on these important subjects. Mr. Kellogg's visit to Paris in 1928, Prime Minister MacDonald's visit to Washington in the Autumn of 1929, and Mr. Stimson's sojourn in London during the Naval Conference, all have given proof of the value of that personal, friendly intercourse which it is the principal task of diplomacy to maintain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foreign Service Offers Unusual Attractions as a Career Says Embassy Member--Is One of the Smallest Professions | 5/20/1931 | See Source »

...lapse in which W. L. Thompson '32 occupied the number seven position. His absence from the stern combination which has seen two seasons of rowing has been difficult to understand, while his contribution to the power and spirit of the University eight has been felt during his short sojourn on the third boat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHOPPY WATER AND HEAD WINDS HINDER CREWS IN WORKOUT | 5/8/1931 | See Source »

...commonwealths of Arkansas and Idaho having matched Nevada's go-day residence divorce law (TIME, March 16), Nevada last week went them 48 days?and then some?better. At Carson City, Governor Balzar signed a bill permitting divorce after a 42-day sojourn in the State, with the provision that grounds need not be specified unless the action is contested. Also he signed a measure legalizing old-time gambling. The new divorce law is effective May 1; the gambling law went in at once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Only Free State | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

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