Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...received high-handed treatment from the authorities in Leningrad. They obstructed my intended tour of Russian timber areas. They pretended to suspect me of wanting to speculate in their currency...
Publisher of Holiday is the American Automobile Association, through its executive vice president Ernest N. Smith. But there is nothing of the motor tour guide about the magazine. The theory is that of all who might yield to the Holiday impulse to go somewhere, enough will naturally choose automobiles. The Association expects Holiday to stand on its own feet as a publishing venture, expects it to attract advertisers of transportation, resorts, sporting goods, luggage, all accessories of travel. Guaranteed circulation for the first issue...
...positions are to be filled and the first place winner will be permitted to accompany the club on the Christmas vacation tour. As is the custom each year, the Instrumental Clubs make an extensive concert tour during the Christmas recess, visiting several large eastern and mid-western cities where they are entertained by prominent Harvard alumni after their concerts...
President Lowell conducted the tour of inspection personally, and was assisted in entertaining and informing the guests by C. N. Greenough '98, and J. L. Coolidge '95, masters of Dunster and Lowell Houses respectively...
Last week the steamer Virginia Lee, carrying 1,000 businessmen on a goodwill tour, hove to 20 mi. at sea off Norfolk, Va. (where naval reviews are held). The businessmen fell silent and looked at three austere caskets on the edge of the deck. The Rev. P. Roland Wagner of Norfolk fumbled with a prayer book. Virginia's Governor John Garland Pollard, onetime William & Mary law professor, smiled his famed crooked smile, cleared his throat...