Word: toured
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contributing cause for the decline. The great numbers of new country clubs might have been cited as another cause, taking ball-players from the sandlots to the golf links not only as players but as caddies. With prosperity have come automobiles, wherein infant Sislers, Lajoies, Heinie Zims tour the block instead of the bases...
...Carveth Wells, famed naturalist, director of many an expedition for the American Museum of Natural History, astonished reporters by letting fall numerous lurid observations anent a tour of the Mediterranean from which he returned last week to Manhattan...
...Filene, who has just returned from Europe where he has been studying economic conditions for several months, is not seriously ill but his physicians have advised several weeks rest after his long tour. The Boston business man has been devoting his efforts during the last few years in untiring effort towards world peace. During his recent stay in Europe he has been investigating the condition of business and industry, as well as working in the interests of international peace...
...claimed for Shaw that he is the only celebrated European who has not succumbed to the lure of a speaking tour in the United States. Deep down in his heart he would probably enjoy nothing so much as a trip to these shores. Such a trip would mean at least a couple of new plays. "But why come to America?" one can imagine Shaw saying to himself. "Columbus did it first...
Home from a tour of Japan, a graduate baseball team from the Univertisy of Chicago related that the game of baseball has "taken hold" in Japan. Annually an all-Japan high school tournament is held in Osaka. Innumerable semiprofessional teams tour the country, though there are no professional leagues. In a college tournament held while the Chicago men were there, Pitcher Yuaso of Meiji College held Chicago to two 0 to 0 games, pitching three contests in three days, resting two days, then pitching three more in a row, for four wins. In the last game that the Meiji...