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Word: vacationers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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New York City's Mayor William O'Dwyer, in & around the Caribbean on vacation, got the key to San Juan from its lady mayor and a thumping, flag-waving welcome from the Puerto Ricans. To Dominicans later he confessed that some well-meant shouts of the Puerto Rican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Coming & Going | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

Doris Duke ("Richest-girl-in-the -world") Rubirosa arrived safe & sound at her occasional home near Honolulu without the Dominican Ambassador to Argentina, whom she married in Paris only last September. She said that she was just taking a little vacation, and husband Porfirio might turn up later.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Coming & Going | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

Simply Dreadful. Miss Madeira, one of Washington's last New Dealers, thinks it "simply dreadful" that most of her students must come from "economic royalist" families.* Returning from vacation, the daughter of a West Virginia mine operator once told the headmistress: "My father likes everything about your school except...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Retribution | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Although John M. Shaw, 61, explained that he only "wanted to be good to the students before they went away on vacation," the South End "philanthropist" was arrested for slipping two-dollar bills under Lowell House doors Monday night.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cops Pinch Man For Donating $2 Bills to Students | 5/27/1948 | See Source »

But the pinball industry is not the only one affected by the vacation migration. The barbershop trade is another. The Yalies may tell you that Harvard men never take haircuts, but they're wrong. It takes considerable skill to give that moss-grown look to pate after pate, and Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vacation Exodus Produces Ghost Town in Cambridge | 5/27/1948 | See Source »

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