Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...money to buy them; if they worked harder, they would produce more food and make more money. Besides, a well-dressed people would make a better impression on the tourists President Estimé hopes to see flocking to Haiti to share its easygoing life and to visit the brooding ruins of Christophe's vast citadel...
...without relation to Ernest Bevin's anti-Russian blast in Britain (see INTERNATIONAL). If the words seemed strong from the mouth of a Mackenzie King, who usually speaks softly, it was because he had been alarmed by what he learned of the world's state during his visit to Europe last November. Excerpts...
...Dedicated Girl. Sonja, ten times world's champion, was not very popular around Ottawa, after a visit in 1932 (as an amateur) when she demanded, but did not get, $2,000 expense money for herself, papa, mama, trainer, maid, dog and parrot. She was never Barbara Ann's ideal, but she represented her objective. At eleven, Barbara Ann took one big step toward that objective-by becoming junior champion of Canada. Two years later, in September 1941, Clyde Scott collapsed while watching a bridge game, and died. It almost broke his daughter's heart...
...lounge in a solarium. Children can do most of their growing up on the 17th floor: romp in a nursery, play games in a playground, train in a gymnasium, or go to classes in a schoolroom. On the seventh floor, parents can shop, eat at the restaurant or drugstore, visit the barber or clinic. "Relieved of the two great burdens of heavy housework and the care of children," Le Corbusier explains, "the family will live a happy existence. There will be no quarrels between neighbors and no divorces in my house...
Like Tiltman, William Costello of CBS had sent critical reports on General MacArthur. Costello, who planned a trip to Java, got the same notice as Tiltman. McGraw-Hill's Alpheus Jessup wanted to visit Malaya and Burma. Ex-General Frayne Baker, MacArthur's P.R.O., ruled Jessup would have to take his wife, who is expecting a child in a month, with...