Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...however, accompany my husband and his party to the source of the Orinoco on the trip from which we are now returning. I remained, instead, on the lower Orinoco collecting specimans, and gathering data for my forthcoming lecture tour...
Since 1884, Tipperary has won the All-Ireland championship eleven times. In 1926, the Tipperary team visited the U. S., won ten games in a row. All-Ireland champions in 1930, the Tipperary hurling team arrived in the U. S. again last week, began another six-week tour to include Somerville (Mass.), Manhattan, Detroit, Chicago and San Francisco...
...organists discussed technical, mechanical organ-problems, heard Pianist-Author John Erskine tell them that "the best music of the future" would be composed by them. They elected him an honorary member of the Association. They listened to the Schola Cantorum sing old motets under Conductor Hugh Ross, made a tour of Manhattan's finest church-organs: at St. Patrick's, St. Bartholomew's, Riverside Church, Temple Emanuel, Trinity Church and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Inventor-Pianist Hans Barth played for them on his quarter-tone piano...
Director Homer Ray Dill of the Uni versity of Iowa Museum, who originated college courses of taxidermy and museum work, several years ago conceived the idea of restoring a dodo in the round, as a tour de force in taxidermy (see cut). His dodo with its relatively short wings, its chunky body and its tufted tail looks like a monstrously big duckling with a gull's bill. Actually the dodo, despite its looks, was a kind of pigeon...
...that pleasure flying is a better sport for women than for men, since women have more time to learn and to stay in practice. Especially to daughters of rich men might this apply. One such, Margery Durant, daughter of Motor Tycoon William Crapo Durant, had time this summer to tour Europe for three months. She did it all dressed up in white in her black-&-white Lockheed-Vega Ariel, accompanied by a French pilot...