Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the ghosts have walked and the witches ridden their broomsticks in fact, now that Hallowe'en has made its yearly visit and there remains no reason why the Georgian's pumpkin pies would be made of squash--there is nothing in sight to break the expanse of featureless days until Armistice Day, some twelve days hence. One of the best ways to start on this stretch is to attend Professor Kittredge's lecture on Chaucer at 10 o'clock in Sever 11 this morning. Professor Kittredge is one of the foremost authorities on this first of English poets...
...view of these facts, the importance of Norman Thomas' visit to Harvard is more than an example of "opposition which ultimately aids knowledge", more than proof of the "existence of a party devoted mainly to the theoretical side of government", more than proof that Harvard is "unrestricted by the prejudice....which fears unrest and smothers disagreement." E.C. Berkeley...
...Lands discovered that just before and just after Dec. 20, 1922, the date of the Salt Creek lease, Oilman Sinclair gave or loaned Secretary Fall $35,000. The day the bids for the Salt Creek contract were supposed to close, Oilman Sinclair was on a train returning from a visit to the Fall ranch in New Mexico. It was nine hours after the legal time was up when Oilman Sinclair sent in his bid, by telegram from Pratt, Kan. Simultaneously, Fall wired Assistant Secretary of the Interior Edward Clingan Finney not to be too formal about the bids. The belated...
...handshaking him in San Francisco. The 1916 election was so close that Mr. Hughes has always been said to have lost it by that one handshake. Last week, Democrats were hoping that another mountain of pique would be built up from a molehill incident of Nominee Hoover's visit three weeks ago in Tennessee...
...Winston Spencer Churchill, affable but shrewd Chancellor of the Exchequer. Very soon it appeared that Host Churchill was not excessively anxious to discuss and come to an agreement upon the grave matter which had caused Guest Gilbert to come over via Paris from Berlin. The Agent General's visit meant that Germany purposes to hold France and Britain to the promise recently given by their representatives at Geneva: namely that an International Finance Commission shall be set up with all appropriate speed, to readjust the whole structure of Reparations Payments (TIME. Sept. 24). However, Chancellor Churchill has long been...