Search Details

Word: visitant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Bingham's visit to Michigan however, puts emphasis on the fact that if Harvard takes on a western college Michigan will probably be the first to be approved on a home-and-home basis. The clause in the old "Big Three" agreement which prevents "long and expensive trips" may be altered before many seasons have passed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BINGHAM IS BOOKED ON EXTENDED TOUR | 2/1/1927 | See Source »

Professor Gilson's Harvard lectures are all over except for the echoes scheduled in the next few days. His fame as a scholar and philosopher had long preceded his visit which revealed above all else a very charming gentleman. Those fortunate enough to have attended either of his courses or his series or public lectures will long remember with what an unusual combination of objectivity and sympathy he dealt with the various representatives of Medieval thought. They were presented not as "ists" perambulating a pet "ism" but as men straining their eyes to catch a glint of the truth behind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANOTHER GUEST DEPARTS | 1/26/1927 | See Source »

...last week a first glimpse of my granddaughter, Mary Ellin Berlin, aged eight weeks, but only in a full front page photograph in the New York Daily Mirror, tabloid. As everyone knows, I disowned my daughter Ellin when she married Irving Berlin, songwriter, and I have also refused to visit the baby or let the baby visit me. The child, which was photographed asleep, looks like any dark, fat, healthy baby. People say this is the first time any baby's picture has occupied the entire front page of a newspaper. The day following its publication, my daughter Ellin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 24, 1927 | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the British Exchequer: "I called upon Signor Mussolini at Rome last week, and succeeded in convincing newsgatherers of the purely social nature of my visit by going out to the ruined Baths of Caracalla daily and working hard to sketch and paint them, facile artist-statesman-soldier-author that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 24, 1927 | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...universities which one has not attended. Yet persons who were never within gunshot of the University of Pennsylvania were struck by an article in the current General Magazine and Historical-Chronicle (quarterly) of the Pennsylvania alumni association. Therein, Dean Emory R. Johnson reported that he had, during a recent visit to Chufu, in the Province of Shantung, China, invited as a matriculant to the University of Pennsylvania a young gentleman whose genealogy has no peer for well-authenticated length or world-wide distinction, Duke K'ung, aged 6. The Duke is 72-times-great-grandson of Confucius.* Where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Great-Grandson 72 | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

Previous | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 130 | 131 | 132 | 133 | 134 | Next