Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he got a call one day last week that his 94-year-old mother was gravely ill, Harry Truman hopped into the presidential plane and flew to her home in Grandview, Mo. It was his fifth visit with her since she had broken her hip in a fall last February. This week, as she wavered, he was at her side...
When the archeologist asked to join them in their temples, the Indians first refused; the gods might resent a stranger. Then they were reminded that the squash crop had been poor for several years. The stranger's visit could not make the gods' service much worse...
...members of the British Ministry of Education, H. F. Collins, Chief Adviser on Foreign Languages, and F. T. Arnold, Adviser on Administration, will visit the School of Education today, David M. Little '17, secretary to the University, announced yesterday...
Chinese Ambassador to the United States, His Excellency Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo, will take time out from his current China Relief mission in Boston long enough to visit the University today...
These losses, which Rank can ill afford, have taught him to change his way of treating his stars. He had been content to make verbal contracts with them. But when Phyllis Calvert, the No. 2 female star in Britain, went to Hollywood to visit and came back with a written contract, he decided that he had better get tougher. (He refuses to make another picture with Calvert, saying sadly: "I have turned her picture to the wall.") Rank now leashes his people with seven-year contracts before letting them loose in Hollywood...