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Word: tourists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...informal is the trip that each man will have opportunity for personal acquaintance with men prominent in European affairs, as well as the chance to sit about cafes or stroll through the town with Europeans who have volunteered to show Harvard men what Europe can be when the commercial tourist atmosphere is noticeably lacking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EUROPEAN HOSPITALITY AWAITS "HARVARD TOUR" | 5/11/1927 | See Source »

...project is extremely worthy: Oxford men will have the opportunity of seeing Canada from a point of view much different from that of the usual tourist; the Canadians will be aided in the great harvest--and they may come to think of a university as capable of producing something more than charming idlers; and the very delicate bonds between the two countries will be cemented by this personal embassy. International politics can do no more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OXFORD EXCHANGE | 3/31/1927 | See Source »

...citizen of the U. S. was killed, Mrs. Glenn Schultz of Ventnor, N. J., a tourist on the Cunard world cruise ship California. The quake came as she was ascending the gangplank at Kobe, shook the gangway down, flung Mrs. Schultz into the water. Instantly Steward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Growing Pains | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

Cold and Cash. A prolonged and most exceptional cold wave has smitten France during the past month, thus still further hurting Riviera tourist trade. Twenty persons died of the cold in France last week, when the thermometer fell to 14° above zero in several cities.† Moreover, Signor Mussolini has lured many tourists from the French to the Italian Riviera by " cutting down Italian tourist taxes while those in France remain high. Finally the doubling of the gold value of the franc in five months (TIME, July 26) has scared away still more tourists and produced a serious fiscal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Three Crises | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

...ineffable charm, then our joy knew no bounds and we ran home to brag about it." Amused commentators recalled that while Wilhelm I was known as Der Greise Kaiser, "The Aged Emperor," his grandson Wilhelm II won by his incessant gadding about Europe the nickname Der Reise-Kaiser "The Tourist Emperor" or literally "The Trip Emperor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Poultney on Wilhelm | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

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