Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mine. All the Germans in Merkers who had anything to do with the mine were rounded up, and one of them was the assistant director of the Berlin museums, Dr. Paul Rave. He told the Americans about the paintings, and accompanied the first Americans, led by Colonel Russell, to visit the mine...
Road to Amman. Plump, turbaned little King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan was indeed the center of Arab hopes. The danger of defeat, which sent Arab refugees scuttling from Palestine, sent Arab politicians to Abdullah in Amman. Cabled TIME Correspondent Eric Gibbs after a visit last week: "Amman has become an Oriental boom town, crowded by Arab politicians, foreign diplomats and correspondents paying exorbitant prices to sleep four in a room in the Philadelphia Hotel. The streets are crowded with Arab Legionnaires in spiked helmets with Beau Geste backflaps, Bedouins in rags of lacelike complexity, donkeys, camels, jeeps, trucks, U.S. cars...
Senator Leverett Saltonstall '14 will visit the College tonight to talk to the Young Republican Club at 7:30 o'clock in Emerson D. The meeting will be the last open gathering of the GOP-ers this term...
...past year, since he has had a television set in his home, Toscanini has become an authority on boxing. Although he never attended fights because he considered them "savage," he now knows all the rules and points. When friends visit him at his eight-acre, 22-room estate overlooking the Hudson at Riverdale, they often find him watching a fight, jumping up & down in his chair like an eight-year-old. When a fighter is knocked down, he leaps up, thrusts his finger at the prostrate figure on the screen, yells...
Curious Wife. Their married life was typical of the officer set-dinners with the colonel, shooting-parties, receptions and balls at the best London houses. But Desmond never let social splendor spoil his sense of kindness. He paid constant visits to a crippled veteran who had been his batman in World War II. He spoke tenderly of a doting old aunt, whose senile eccentricity caused her to send him blank postcards at regular intervals. Harriet never saw these two people, but at last she noticed that whenever her husband received a card from his crazy aunt, he broke any previous...