Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to the authorities at the Charleston Navy Yard, however, the report is entirely unfounded and at the present time it is almost certain that Boston will not be honored by such a visit...
Between 1926 and 1931 occurred such dramatic events as General Chiang's break with Moscow, where his name is now execrated; resignation by Chiang of all his Chinese offices on two separate occasions; one visit by the General to Japan where years ago he got his original military training at Tokyo Military Academy; his marriage to Christian Miss Soong, and his baptism as a Southern Methodist after the Ningpo Napoleon had said, "I feel the need of a God such as Jesus Christ...
...Peabody, Mass., following the high school football team's third defeat, Police Chief William F. Pierce ordered patrolmen to visit each player's home each night to see that he went to bed by 10 o' clock...
...heads, and all the while most of us were wondering where Mr. Conant was. Presently, the guards left the Vice-Chancellor, and after much more bowing brought in Mr. Conant. Still more tipping of caps and bowing and Public Orator, Dr. C. Bailey, in excellent Latin, recalled the visit made by the Vice-Chancellor as head of the Oxford delegation to the tercentenary celebrations at Harvard. Then Mr. Conant's accomplishments were reviewed and his aim as the head of Harvard set down: ". . . ut hominum societat em maximan ex diversis et ipsam elementsis compositam in unum corpus conformet" with...
...years ago, on Stravinsky's last U. S. visit, a customs officer looked suspiciously over a bundle of his scores, asked in what language they were written (TIME. Jan. 14. 1935). Many U. S. concertgoers are just as confused when they hear Stravinsky's music. Others regard his trick harmonics as a glorious, artistic in novation. A few rank him and his old friend Painter Pablo Picasso, equally well-grounded in classicism and equally able to produce conventional art forms if he chose, as the 20th Century's greatest artistic jokesters...