Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...international financing and the bond salesmen who sallied out of those 30 company offices last week with Tokyo Electric Light mortgage bonds carried on their banners a legend of Japan phrased by Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament. Said he last October, just as he was completing a visit of inspection over the country and its possessions: "We believe in Japan; we believe in her peaceful intentions; we believe in her courage, her patience, her faith and her loyal friendship for America...
...training camp was favored with a visit of the Notre Dame baseball squad today. The South Bend diamond stars, fresh from their massacre of the Crimson in Cambridge, were in New London to play the Knights of Columbus team, and after their game journeyed here to inspect the crew quarters. They were shown around the grounds and were taken out in one of the launches to watch the three mile practice of the Harvard crews...
Physically he is frail, and, when working hard, fidgety. The condition is largely the result of an accident a score of years ago. He was on a week-end visit at the country home near Milwaukee of Ann McEldin Douglass, his fiancee.* Mrs. Douglass with the young people was at the railroad station. Along the tracks went an express train, and across the tracks a huge St. Bernard dog. The train batted the huge dog through the air. The dog struck Mr. Dillon in the stomach and knocked him toward a lamp post. On the way he struck Mrs. Douglass...
...defray expenses connected with the inviting of a group of French University students to America for a few weeks. They were given such a cordial reception here and established so many firm friendships that it seemed proper and fitting that a group of American students should be invited to visit France under similar circumstances...
John Dewey was setting out with his huge casualness "to have a look at Russia." Of course the news of his impending visit had elicited from Soviet Commissar of Education Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky a formal invitation and an expression of enthusiasm that the Second Confucius was coming. Comrade Lunacharsky is a Red, but he knows his Deweys. A dynamo of energy, he not only directs the Commissariat (Ministry) for Education, but writes plays, is President of the Moscow Society of Dramatic Writers & Composers, and acts as supervising editor of three Moscow publications: Novy Mir (The New World), Krestyanka (The Peasant...