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Word: vacationers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The excessively ugly, good-humored and unambitious Peregrine ("Pithecanthropus") Smith, on a fortnight's pedestrian holiday from his police duties, meets up with an aggressive young Scottish engineer. They set out to cross Dukesmoor together in a thick fog. From the window of the moorland house a face watches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder! | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

The hard and fast vacation rule works especially harshly on those who live at a considerable distance from Cambridge. Inasmuch as traveling time is allowed only at the beginning of holidays, the necessity of returning from a distance to attend one class is doubly irksome. A notoriously unfortunate case this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACK TO CAMBRIDGE | 12/20/1929 | See Source »

Either there should be a revision in the system of travelling time to take care of cases such as that of the foregoing illustration, or the college should grant the extra day or two as an extended vacation period to men who have only one or two classes before the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACK TO CAMBRIDGE | 12/20/1929 | See Source »

The University team is to play no games during the vacation. Immediately after the recess, however, there will be a contest at the Commonwealth Armory between the University team and the Cavalry on January 4.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLO SECONDS TO PLAY BATTERY A TOMORROW | 12/20/1929 | See Source »

Bermuda with its tropic warmth and transported British Christmas cheer is a very pleasant picture to anticipate. But in any clime Christmas itself isn't such a bad idea. With the prospect of his own vacation right before him, the Vagabond is in no mood to moralize about the spirit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/20/1929 | See Source »

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