Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advance publicity, Lowell Thomas' editorship is purely honorary, a favor to his friend Albert Buranelli (brother of Writer Prosper Buranelli) who will publish Saga. Most of the editorial work is done by Associate Editor Daniel Edwin Wheeler, onetime fiction editor of Liberty. Honorary Editor Thomas manages to visit the office briefly about once a week...
...Freshmen were allowed to take fourteen meals in the Houses during the second half year an opportunity would be provided for them to understand better the atmosphere of each unit. This plan would enable every man to visit each House twice. It would not burden the University financially since the cost would be negligible. How the first year students are to have a basis for an intelligent preference if this plan is not adopted, is a question University administrators must consider before discarding...
Native Bostonians know what to expect from this year's show because it hasn't changed except for a few slight improvements in scenery from the general style of the last few years, but those who are away from home will want to visit the exhibition some time before they leave the Hub of the Universe. Several contests in log-rolling, wood chopping, and canoetilting are held each day to attract the interest of those who are not there to see the sporting equipment. In addition, there are exhibitions of fly casting that cannot be equalled...
...international question is the sort James Ramsay MacDonald loves to twiddle with and talk about. That the British Prime Minister can actually be brought to do anything, the French Premier more than doubted. In Paris last week M. Flandin's press officer had orders to say that the visit might well turn out to be one of "courtesy and contact," with none of the quick action on great issues that Premier Benito Mussolini gave Foreign Minister Laval last month. Since Italy is minute, Britain monstrous, the London talks may still be of greater importance than those at Rome...
...blood & bone of the ocean travel business. Last week the Department of State released Passport Bureau statistics showing what sort of person the average U. S. tourist is. He turned out to be a male resident of New York City, taking his wife and children to Western Europe to visit relatives. By occupation he might be almost anything from a clerk to a schoolteacher. Of the 139,590 men, women & children who went abroad in 1934 the largest single occupational group were housewives (16,314), the next biggest group people with no occupation (11,778). Some of the others...