Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sent copies of the book, including his particularly close friend and fellow Scotsman, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, are pledged to secrecy as to the volume's contents. Title of the book comes from a well-known Barrie legend. When he first went to London he decided to visit the late Editor Frederick Greenwood of St. James's Gazette, bought a new hat for the meeting. To his chagrin, an office boy relieved Author Barrie of his cherished hat before he came into the editor's presence...
When he had about completed his program at Bloomington, there came to visit him an elderly Californian, Senator Leland Stanford, and his wife, Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stanford. Once Governor of California, Senator Stanford was a rich, celebrated horse breeder. To Dr. Jordan he explained his mission: his only son, Leland Stanford Jr. had died of Roman fever in 1884, aged 16, in Florence, Italy. To perpetuate his memory Senator & Mrs. Stanford had founded a university "free from traditions and precedents, one that will fit men and women for lives of service." The great Stanford horse farm in the wooded hills...
Every year leading airplane builders and designers assemble at Langley Field where Chairman Joseph Sweetman Ames points with pride to NACA's developments of the past twelvemonth. Last week a party of some 200 made the visit. They...
When H. R. H. Edward of Wales was visiting South America recently he found no dearth of British news in the dailies there. But, presswise, he was quick and displeased to observe how many of the despatches carried the initial slugs UP & AP. News originating in London he found under New York datelines, labeled by the great U. S. wire services that had relayed it from across the sea. In speeches last fortnight before manufacturers of North England, H. R. H. called for an all-British news service in Latin America. His point: He may have fertilized the field...
...second semester is held on board the 20,000 ton steamship "Resolute", which the students re-join at Naples. Classes meet daily at sea in special rooms and on deck. During this semester students visit Greece, Palestine, Egypt, French Somaliland in East Africa, India, Ceylon, Prince of Wales Island, Malaya, Siam, the Straits Settlements, Java, Bali, Sulu, the Philippines, Formosa, China, Korea, Japan, the Hawaiian Islands, California, Panama, and Cuba...