Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most talented animals trained by the Brelands are on exhibition in their "I.Q. Zoo," a tourist attraction at Hot Springs, and 250 of them are on the road for General Mills. They draw attention to General Mills' exhibits at agricultural fairs and of course always pick G.M. products as their favorite foods. The Brelands enjoy their commercial success, but they regard it as a pleasant way to pay for expensive research. Their leading interest is still animal psychology, and they are sure that they have learned enough already to help farmers control their animals. Example: a farmer should always...
...Zurich airport; then on to a rattling good bobsled run and a grand ski-daddle down the famous slope at Davos. Off to Paris: quick looks at the city, the Louvre, High Mass in Notre Dame, spring showings in Jacques Path's salon, the soubrettes in a big tourist boite. The best thing in the show is a study of the children's faces as they watch the Guignol in the park...
...never expected to see TIME joining the ranks of the people who look down their noses upon the poor standard of living of the uncultured tribes of the Gauls. Your Jan. 10 article "The Sheltering Sky" may well have been written by a sightseeing tourist . . . What is wrong with "houses built under the reign of Francis I?" I have lived in just such a house . . . The plumbing was perfect. Who invented the saga of the French plumbing? I have a hunch it was a nation frustrated for having nothing but gadgets to hold onto in the emptiness of a hectic...
Despite its dating back to 1726, Wadsworth House has long since blended into the general chaos of Harvard architecture, and there are probably not ten students in every hundred who could direct a tourist to it. Surrounded by Lehman, Grays, and Boylston, it is the yellow mongrel--part wood, part brick--wagged by the long tail of Wigglesworth...
...Scotland and collected the Border ballads he loved. At 33 he published his own ballad. The Lay of the Last Minstrel, and it sold an unheard-of 40,000 copies. After such narrative poems as Marmion and The Lady of the Lake (which started a great tourist rush for the Scottish moors and highlands), Scott started turning out his medieval romances and his beloved tales of bygone borderers and buccaneers...