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Word: tourist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's most popular tourist attraction is not one of the hallmarks of University history--the John Harvard statue or Widener Library--but rather the breathtaking collection of Blaschka Glass models of plants, popularly called the "Glass Flowers...

Author: By Valerie G. Scoon, | Title: Glass Flowers Show Mastery of Art, Science | 12/14/1984 | See Source »

...people are tourists, and they stop at Harvard University for the same reason they visit any other tourist attraction in the Boston area. One Texan says, quite simply, that "it is the thing...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Walking and Gawking | 12/14/1984 | See Source »

...result of the film. "During summer tours actors were pumping on the pump in Harvard Yard," which Sanks said piqued tourist interest. He added that the pump outside Hollis Hall, is a replica of a real pump which students blew up, as a practical joke, sometime in the 1920s...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Walking and Gawking | 12/14/1984 | See Source »

Ingrid L. Ott '83 was exploring a mainland China village with a 6-ft., 2-in, red-haired friend. Her friend found a pair of shorts with a design similar to Hawaiian tourist shorts in a small shop for 25 cents, and liked them so much that he put them on immediately. When they left the shop and started walking down the street, a huge crowd of Chinese people followed them, laughing uncontrollably. Ott said that she had no idea if she or her friend was the object of ridicule...

Author: By Joshua L. Dunaief, | Title: Taking a Semester at Sea | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...thing is sure, the movie will not lack for churning, monster-a-minute energy. The plot is the oldest in literature, a quest: confront the Minotaur, find the Holy Grail, follow the yellow brick road. Twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer is sheltering unhappily in an empty New Hampshire tourist hotel, where his mother Lily, a washed-up B-movie queen, is wasting away with cancer. A mysterious old black man named Speedy, who tends a carrousel, hints that if Jack can reach California and find something called the talisman, all will be well. Part of the journeying will be through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Monstrous | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

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