Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Activities after the Conference have not been fixed, but it is known that Yugoslavia has extended an official invitation to the delegates to visit that country, and other nations may follow suit...
...newly-formed committee called the Cambridge Council for Price Control, the delegates from University and town groups planned a parade between Central and Harvard Squares during the buyers' strike. Public attention will be roused by leaflet distribution, a sound truck and a roving picket line. A delegation will visit Representative Curley to urge passage of the OPA bill...
...Mother Cabrini's mission was not only to America. She somehow found time, energy and means to visit and establish her order in London, Paris, Madrid, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Nicaragua...
...Catalepsy. Little Alma Bridwell was thought so dull by her Kentucky parents that they gave her ten brothers & sisters a priority on schooling. When an aunt invited one of the seven girls in the family to visit the wild Montana Territory, Alma was her last choice-but each of the others was afraid to venture into the country of cowboys & Indians. Nineteen-year-old Alma took the chance and stayed to teach, first in public school, later in Salt Lake City's Methodist seminary. When she wanted to preach as well, shocked Methodists told her to marry a preacher...
...autumn of 1836 . . . a married lady of my acquaintance . . . proposed to me that on her return [to New Salem, III. from a visit to Kentucky') she would bring a sister . . . upon condition that I would engage to become her brother-in-law with all convenient dispatch-I . . . accepted. . . , In due time [the lady] returned, sister in company sure enough-This stomached me a little. . . . I knew she was oversize, but she now appeared a fair match for Falstaff. . . . I could not for my life avoid thinking of my mother . . . from her want of teeth, weather-beaten appearance in general...