Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other election-day activities saw 28 foreign students tour polling places for a first-hand view of American democracy in action...
From this office a full-time staff will synchronize NSA's four main projects: a tri-nation tour administered by the Radcliffe chapter of NSA, foreign student hospitality promotion, a soap, clothes, book drive to help staff the Free University of Berlin, and the channelling of student purchasing powers within the Boston area to obtain cheaper student rates...
Plans for the tour include colleges and preparatory schools in the New England region as contacted during the past few weeks by Robert E. Miller '48, president. A booking has already been scheduled at Andover, and Exeter is expected to follow suit shortly...
...many distractions between Adrian and the reader. But it is also true that some of the most brilliant writing in Faustus comes in these unexpected asides. The section describing Adrian's deal with the Devil (he sells himself body & soul for 24 years of creative greatness) is a tour de force-translated from archaic German into archaic English-that is a unique reading experience in or out of context. So is the subtle, near-perfect sketch of the fast-talking music impresario Saul Fitelberg...
When the crowd quieted finally, he began. He spoke for half an hour and there wasn't a harsh note in the whole speech. It had all the acid bits of a bowl of breakfast cereal. If the speech was at all typical of the whole tour, then Dewey has made the mildest the blandest campaign for major political office in America in this century...