Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale baseball team was preparing to embark for a goodwill sporting tour of Japan as the guests of Tokyo's Six-University Baseball League...
...talked, thus putting themselves on a par with humans. Tsarist Russia, fearful lest moppets get fantastic ideas, banned Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales. Last week New York Junior Leaguers, delighted by the interest the exhibition had aroused, extended it an extra week, talked of taking it on tour...
...they were entering a life which, as Shawn said, "is like joining a church." The training was more tiring than football. For four hours each morning they lunged and pranced before mirrors. In the afternoon they tended the 150-acre farm, sawed wood, dug ditches. Those who went on tour had to be self-sufficient, truck their scenery, pitch and dismount...
Governor General Frank Murphy lay ill at Wnite Sulphur Springs, W. Va. President Manuel Quezon of the Philippine Senate was in Manhattan. Acting Governor General Joseph R. Hayden was far north in the Igorot Country on an inspection tour. Major General Frank Parker, commanding the Philippine District, was vacationing in China. A better opportunity for an uprising could scarcely have presented itself to disadvantaged Filipino hotheads. Last week they took it, with the bloodiest consequences of any Philippine revolt in the past 15 years...
...Flora Macdonald, who risked her life more than once to guide the Prince to safety, dressed him in women's clothes and passed him off as her maid. Her loyalty did not prevent her marrying later and becoming the mother of ten. When Johnson and Boswell made their tour of the Hebrides they visited her, and she and the old lexicographer hit it off from the first. His typical tribute to her was inscribed on her tomb: "A name that will be mentioned in history, and if courage and fidelity be virtues, mentioned with honour. She is a woman...