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Word: vacationers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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"In the middle of a very tempestuous night.... Harvard Hall, the only one of our ancient buildings which remained, and the repository of the public library and the philosophical apparatus, was seen to be in flames. As it was in vacation time, when all the students were dispersed, the fire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wine, Military Men, and Philosophical Apparatus Figure in Diverting History of College Halls | 9/24/1927 | See Source »

While Mayor Walker was thus engaged, Manhattan newsreaders were depressed and confounded to read upon the editorial page of tho sedate New York Times an article which 'definitely jeered at the second busiest holder of public office in the U. S. Said the Times: "It is a comfort to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: A Mayor Abroad | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

These compliments were all addressed to Arthur Stanley Pease, onetime professor of classics at the University of Illinois and later at Amherst College, who, before vacation in June, was unanimously elected tenth President of Amherst to succeed Dr. George D. Olds, who resigned last fall (TIME, Nov. 22).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Amherst's Presidency | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

For perhaps the first time since the ascension of Tsar Boris III (1918), His Majesty managed to slip out of Sofia last week en route for Switzerland before rumors could be started that he went in search of a bride. Year after year correspondents have cried "Wolf! Wolf!" to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Holiday | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

Shrewd, he delayed his vacation beyond the usual date, allowing an impression to seep out that he would not leave Sofia this summer. Then, without warning, the royal motor car purred discreetly from palace to railway station. On the platform stood only one official: Premier André Liaptchev.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Holiday | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

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