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Word: vacationers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps these exams spur a few lazy scholars out of the pre-vacation slump, but in subjecting everyone to such an ordeal in order to stimulate a sluggish minority is patently unfair. The contention of others that they benefit by a review of their studies is true to a certain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WITCHING HOUR | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

Valet MacDuffy packed his bags, but President Roosevelt had plenty of things to do and people to see before leaving Washington last week for his inspection of the Tennessee Valley Authority and his annual autumn vacation in Georgia. When they were all done and seen he put on a powder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: All Is Well | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

3) One-and-one-half Pullman charges for round-trips are liberally offered to vacation spots and resorts.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Profits on Comfort | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

This cheerful prospect doesn't mean that Casey will give the Varsity a vacation this week. On the contrary, the layoff yesterday is probably the only rest the gridsters will have until Sunday. For there are plenty of major weaknesses in the Varsity's play, as the Army's 27...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY GIVEN A CHANCE FOR REST AFTER HARD GRIND | 11/13/1934 | See Source »

So loath was onetime President Deschanel of France to leave the privacy of his own railway compartment that in 1920, while relieving himself through an open window, he fell out of the train in his pajamas and ruined his political career. No such clumsy timidity bothers the little Tsar of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: At the Throttle | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

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