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Word: visitant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slight, silver-haired spinster boarded a plane for Africa last week on a strange errand. Esther Cummings was off to visit Egypt, Ethiopia, the Sudan and the Belgian Congo, to put in practice a phonetic language-learning system she had been taught by her missionary father. With it, she thought she could get the hang of any native tongue in three or four days. Her mission (sponsored by the United and Southern Presbyterian Boards): to teach the natives how to teach their own languages to the missionaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Playback | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

CRIMSON editors have been called upon to visit the Plympton Street Palace tonight for the annual picnic and picture, authorities revealed last night. Free refreshments will be served throughout the festivities, which will begin more promptly than ever at 7:30 o'clock sharp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chowder Society Meets | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...trial's last day, Lipinski in the prisoner's dock had a visit from his son, with whom he chatted calmly until court convened. Then he stood to hear his sentence: death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: The New Treason | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

During its whole visit, the comet acted as if it wanted to dodge human observation. Astronomer Leland E. Cunningham of the University of California, who worked out its orbit from data collected in Australia, reported that it slipped out of space on the far side of the sun. Sweeping around the sun within a whisker (9,000,000 miles), it stayed for the most part near the line between the sun and earth. It was therefore hard to see, like a fighter plane diving on its enemy "out of the sun." In the southern hemisphere it was visible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Shy Comet | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...flow. The monumental art created in the 15th Century's peculiar climate has stood through all kinds of historical weather. Today huge, and sometimes forbidding, art museums hang the treasures of the Renaissance on their walls, there to be seen by several million Americans who each year visit Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum and the National Gallery in Washington. Thousands of Christmas cards, crisscrossing in the mail, carry reproductions of the 15th Century masterpieces, and an infinite variety of imitations. In these ways the great religious art of the past has become gifts to mankind, reopened by each succeeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gifts for God | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

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