Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Simmonds the two worst features of U. S. air transport are noise and "rumbling." The noise evil has been effectively attacked since his visit; the Curtiss "silent" Condor and the new Douglas Airliner have reduced cabin decibels to approximately the same level as a Pullman...
...latest book, "The Shape of Things to Come," Mr. H. G. Wells attempts to look into the future. The following passage, taken from the chapter entitled "America in Liquidation," describes the visit of an Englishman to Harvard in the year 1958 and what he found here...
...interested in Railroading and its history, he would do well to visit the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Room located in the Business School's Baker Memorial Library. Therein is a very satisfactory zoo of footnotes: conductor buttons, brass bells, lanterns. The Business School, it appears, has begun to put things, even Railroads, where they belong...
...most impassioned U. S. devotee. A Methodist missionary in India, he was made a bishop in 1920, resigned in 1930 because his job was "too much burdened with administration and too little harnessed to definite spiritual functions." Of him St. Gandhi has said: "Bishop Fred Fisher first came to visit me on a Monday. He talked all day. I couldn't even get a word in anywhere. All I could do was listen. I kept my mouth shut and let the Bishop talk. The rest did me so much good that I have ever since kept Monday...
...weather and the scenery were both melancholy. Hamish's days were excitingly full of preaching, coaxing, denunciation; Allison found time to wish there were something more. Then came Andrew, wandering artist, man-of-the-great-world, wounded veteran of Waterloo. Hamish and Allison both delighted in him; his visit lengthened on & on. Then Hamish had to go to London. Allison and Andrew, left alone, finally admitted they were in love; but Allison remembered her duty, sent him packing. Seventeen years later she saw him again, on the street in Edinburgh. But she hid in a doorway until...