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Word: visitor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...words spoken by His Majesty in his native Amharic-until an announcer cleared up the mistake. As Good Old Haile Selassie withdrew into the house, 1,000 admirers out front snapped up popular dailies, one of which cried under a banner headline: ''Haile Selassie is a welcome visitor, for he belongs to that band of men with the courage to stand up against tyranny and stand by what is right at the risk of death in order that justice might live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Selassie & Fiuggi | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...important did Soviet authorities con-sider the case last week that Chief Public Prosecutor André Vishinsky conducted it himself. Though Semenchuk cried shrilly that he was a visitor from Mars, manifested other symptoms of madness. Prosecutor Vishinsky was clearly out to make Wrangel's Governor an example to other remote Red bosses prone to autocracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Crazy Governor | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

...preservative and the African settings reproduced piece by piece. Artificial berries, leaves and flowers were made of paper, wax, cloth, celluloid. In the gorilla group there are 75,000 artificial leaves and berries, some 20,000 fragments of genuine African flora. Museum officials were confident last week that no visitor could distinguish the imitation from the real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Africa Transplanted | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

Back at the King David Hotel, a doctor allowed Haile Selassie to have only one visitor, a British bank manager. Together they went over the inventory of the treasure on which the Emperor must live for the rest of his life.What he brought on the Enterprise was estimated at a little over $5,000,000. One important item was already safely in a London vault, the imperial crown of Ethiopia. Solid gold, weighing more than three pounds, studded like a plum cake with rubies, diamonds, sapphires, it was shipped out of Addis Ababa before the fall of the city seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Courage and Hope | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

Losing only two singles matches and making a clean sweep of the doubles the Varsity tennis team disposed of the Amherst netmen to the tune of 7 to 2 yesterday afternoon. The visitor's two victories were obtained at the expense of Jim Thackera, who has had tough going at the number 1 post, and Bob Bentley, who recently displaced Robertson at number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TENNIS TEAM TROUNCES AMHERST PLAYERS, 7-2 | 4/24/1936 | See Source »

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