Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scholar at a county fair. In Washington, the discussions on the North Atlantic alliance were about to resume. But before he settled down to that problem, Sir Oliver Franks, ambassador to the U.S. and onetime professor of moral philosophy, thought it important to make a good-will tour of the U.S. Midwest...
Mozart with Hindemith. Those in the audience who had seen Szymon Goldberg ten years before might reasonably have been surprised that he had not changed more. In Java on a concert tour, he and his wife had been interned by the Japanese in 1943 as Polish nationals. In 2½ years he had been in 14 prison camps, separated from his wife for all but five months (she managed to keep his Stradivarius...
...York Herald Tribune's M. C. Blackman, making a tour of Manhattan bars, found the patrons restless. In a West 38th Street saloon, Otello was largely drowned out by Buttons and Bows from the jukebox, and finally a customer shouted: "Turn on the fights-I want to see the little guy get murdered." Concluded Reporter Blackman: "Opera is not likely to supplant boxing in midtown bars and grills...
...best black-and-white prints from the University's Photographic Society's fall salon, held last night in the Union Copper Common Room, will begin a three week tour of the College this morning, starting in the Union Lower Common Room...
Miss Tucker will coordinate all NSA publicity for Radcliffe. Most news from the Annex this year will center around the Radcliffe-sponsored trination tour of Belgium, France, and Holland. Early word of the mechanics of the tour has already been announced; students will probably travel in reconverted troopships and rates for undergraduates under the NSA plan will be only a fraction of the standard steamship rates...