Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Dartmouth's apparent demise from Ivy supremacy, as indicated by the six-game losing streak suffered by the Big Green in its western tour, the gentlemen in the know have singled out the Ithacans and the Varsity as the clubs to beat this season. Coach Bill Barclay's indoctrination into Ivy League play will thus come as a formidable test; his charges are not likely to meet stiffer opposition anywhere in the circuit...
Monroe and Isabel Smith, two U.S. schoolteachers shepherding a student tour of Europe, brought the idea home with them in 1933 and a year later opened the first U.S. hostel at Northfield, Mass. By its twelfth birthday last week the A.Y.H. boasted 250 hostels, scattered from New England to California...
When not on tour or practicing, Miss Anderson dabbles in farming. She sells grade-A vegetables to the local market, regrets that Marianna, like many farms run by hired help, costs more than it brings in. And there are other problems in the agrarian life. This year, Miss Anderson was much puzzled when the big (but unbred) daughter of her registered Guernsey cow did not give milk. "Heifers have to be freshened before you can milk them," she explains with some astonishment. "Did you know that...
Wherever he alights on his speaking tour around the country, a long red carpet is rolled out for him. When he finishes, the audience sings the new national anthem Indonesia Raja. The tune is almost a direct steal from Boola, Boola; the refrain starts...
European Witness is a ditty bag of impressions collected by Poet Spender on a tour he made through Germany (with a dip into France) for the British Government in 1945, "to inquire into the lives and ideas of German intellectuals, with a particular view to discovering any surviving talent in German literature...