Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME Vice-President C.D. Jackson has just returned from a five weeks' visit to England, France, The Netherlands, and Czechoslovakia-and I thought you might be interested in some of his informal notes on the state of European recovery...
...managing director of TIME-LIFE International (our 'round-the-world publishing and newsgathering operation), made the trip to present to British businessmen and government officials our recent survey The Market for United Kingdom Consumer Goods in the United States (A Letter from the Publisher, May 31); to visit some of our News Bureaus abroad; and to talk business with our distributing agent in Czechoslovakia, where TIME and LIFE are still banned...
...Octet with the Pro Arte String Quartet ("they were the gods"). Says Griller: "We had terrific competition-the Budapest, the Busch, all the finest. But we worked our way, rather like worms." For a while they did not even have a name. "I had gone over to Ireland to visit my girl. When I got back, the other three told me they'd had to have some announcements made. 'We didn't have a name,' they said, 'so we used yours...
After school, Miss Mowrey must grade papers, prepare for the next day's schoolwork, help her sister with the housework, find time to visit the parents of problem students. She rarely sees a movie, does practically no reading beyond what is required for her class work, and is annoyed to find herself slipping out of touch with the news. She climbs into bed each night exhausted...
...total of 36,700,000 out of a population of 41,460,000 in Eng land and Wales. (Separate but similar schemes started at the same time in Scot land and Northern Ireland.) Said one gleeful patient: "I've been paying my doctor ten shillings sixpence ($2.10) per visit twice a week. Now the fellow has to attend me for 15 bob a year...