Word: toured
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four groups of 12 students, each group led by an American professor or some other person qualified for leadership are to tour Russia this summer under the auspices of the National Student Federation of America in cooperation with the Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries of the U. S. S. R. and the All Russian Central Students Bureau...
...group on Tour 1 will proceed to Kharkkov, the Don Basin, up the Dnuper to Kiev and then through White Russia. Tour II will include the Caucasus and the Volga, making possible a study of the old and new agricultural systems. Tour III will take in the Volga, the Caucasus and Crimea, while Tour IV will be devoted to the Urals...
When famed Elizabeth, alleged virgin queen, used to tour her realm, feudal lords would nearly bankrupt themselves to feed her and entertain her. But today, while Socialists control many a public purse string, the royal gambols are distinctly gambles. Only after long haggling did the City Council of Glasgow decide, by a lean majority, to entertain the King-Emperor and Queen-Empress on their summer visit (TIME, Feb. 28). But the Socialists continued to fight and last week the Council reversed itself, voting, 25 to 11, that there will be no luncheon at public expense for Their Majesties. Tactful, George...
...greatest gentleman the world ever knew, and He was an evangelist." Nevertheless, the press last week did not neglect to report that Gypsy Smith, "the father of all evangel ists," was on the way from Co lumbia, Ga., to Chicago, "on the last legs of a globe-girdling tour during which he has converted more than 100,000 men and wo men." He will open the three-day golden jubilee of his conversion with a mass meeting at the staid First Congregational Church in Oak Park, Ill., where the Rev. William E. Barton, father of advertising man Bruce Barton...
...Omitting Chicago and all the Middle West, I last week completed my second tour of the U. S. Sailing for France from Manhattan, I said: 'I have seen mixed peoples in many parts of the world, and they are never superior types. Your country has shown both its strength and its wisdom by protecting itself from too much infiltration. . . . The trouble with the melting-pot is that the grease comes to the top. . . . When we consider the interval separating Pasteur from the monkey, it seems to me the Negro has traveled a long distance in his short contact with...