Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Germany. He built the Ford plants, the Packard plant, the Hudson plant. He received the silver medal of the Architectural League for Detroit's Fisher buildings. He belongs to six golf clubs, but has never played golf. With his wife, he sailed for Europe last week, to visit, not Russia, but "a nice warm place" to stay a few weeks. In Europe he will visit cathedrals, sketch, have a holiday, come home...
...being built as a focal point for the Soviet Automobile industry by Cleveland's engineering Austin Co.; like the Kahn tractor factory at Stalingrad, the new Kahn enterprise exhibits Soviet enthusiasm for U. S. industrial and architectural methods. Soviet engineers in the next five years will visit the U. S. to study U. S. mechanical processes, to become devotees in the steely U. S. temples of Albert Kahn...
...rough as crows; they fight constantly among themselves. A nuisance already in many a U. S. town, starlings had by last week become a pest in the national capital. Washington citizens wrote letters to the newspapers. It seemed only a matter of days until some starling would visit an indignity upon President Hoover...
...somewhat short of their aim because, in the crowd and bustle of the Union Living Room, little else is possible but, an introduction to the Department members which attend. But various members of the Faculty, among them Professors Hooking and Whitehead, supplement these mass gatherings by extending invitations to visit them to students in their courses. Perhaps it is difficult to evoke any considerable response to such invitations from the Harvard undergraduate. But the attempt is certainly to be commended, and it is hoped, emulated...
Professor Brinton will visit Beliot College, Beliot, Wisconsin; Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois; and Colorado College, at Colorado Springs. As yet no exchange professors from these colleges have been appointed to visit Harvard this year...