Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the younger generation has suddenly blossomed forth with a real interest in exploration was revealed when, on investigating the visitor's register at the Geographical Institute, the firm but jumbled scrawl of none other than Teddy Conant, younger son of the President, appeared among a host of learned dignitaries...
...crowded. Our other artists attract a very special class of visitor, but O'Keeffe always brings the general public...
Last month as preparations for the Manila Congress went forward, Pius XI lay racked with pain, dying some thought, in his third-floor chamber in the Vatican. To his bedside one day went a visitor who could not be put off, an old friend and trusted servant from across the Atlantic: Dennis Joseph Cardinal Dougherty, 71, Archbishop of the See of Philadelphia (824,250 Catholics), Metropolitan of the Province of Philadelphia (2,080,788 souls in six Sees), Titular Priest of Rome's Church of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo, member of the Congregations of the Sacraments, of Sacred Rites...
...became Archbishop of Philadelphia where ever since the name of "Dockerty" (as many of his flock pronounce it) has been a potent one. Strictest disciplinarian of the four U. S. Cardinals, he rules his clergy with an iron hand, insists on punctuality, obedience, deference. To a young shipboard visitor on his recent trip he growled: "Boy, take off your cap!" Philadelphia newspapers know better than to print anything the Archbishop might take offense at, for a boycott may fall such as once forced the Public Ledger to apologize abjectly for a story quoting Katharine Mayo in disparagement of Philippine missions...
...minutely detailed story of vegetable life on Krakatau since the catastrophe has now been published in Leiden by W. M. Docters van Leeuwen and was reviewed last week in the British journal Nature. In 1886, one-celled water plants, ferns and mosses had already established themselves. In 1905 a visitor found a large cycad (palmlike tree). Now the islands are covered with vegetation including tall trees, luxuriant shrubbery and thick grasses, comprising 271 species. Dr. Docters van Leeuwen estimates that 41% of this new life was borne to the islands by wind, 28% by ocean currents, 25% by birds...