Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...figures made it seem that many a "visitor" might be staying...
Twenty years later Harvard had her revenge, and again an Englishman was the middle man. A visitor to the University in 1914, a total stranger to American football, had seen Yale practice, and remarked to Coach Haughton that Yale played very much on the Rugby style. This startling news called a coaches' conference, it was decided that the Elis had something of a lateral pass up their sleeves, and plans were laid accordingly...
...ought to be hung,* Mr. Adams clung to his old sentimental love of the human race.'' Said H. L. Mencken in the Evening Sun: "Of all the journalists I have known in this life, the late Jonh Haslup Adams was the only one who never made a visitor compromise with hie convictions...
Mussolini. Said the visitor: "We talked chiefly about aviation in which Mussolini demonstrated a really superior intelligence. His courtesy was gracious beyond words...
...listing lectures on outer events which to him seem unusually insinuative and by an occasional comment on the lecturer's topic, he can incite any intellectual curiosity in his reader, his ambitions will have been fulfilled. The course meetings which he notes may prove worthless to the visitor as far as the accumulation of any concrete knowledge; taken alone they may be hopelessly complex or fruitlessly general. Should they arouse inquisitiveness concerning the particular subject under discussion, however, or any tangential treatment value may be measured only with reference to futurities...