Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...RESIDENT OF FIJI WHO DISLIKES THE GOVERNMENT AND CONDITIONS IS PERFECTLY FREE TO LEAVE AND GO TO LIVE IN ANY PLACE OF HIS CHOICE, HEAVENLY OR HELLISH. AS A VISITOR TO FIJI, I FIND IT DELIGHTFUL AND NEITHER A HELL NOR A HEAVEN FOR ANYONE...
...sheer beauty of the campus quickly strikes the visitor. Its buildings, placed in a spacious setting of grass-covered hills, are constructed in an impressive modernistic style. The comfortable living quarters, which have been patterned on the English model, have much in common with the Harvard houses. Each of five "halls"--one for women, four for men--has its own dining room, sports facilities, social activities, and student government, and inter-hall competition is keen on many fronts. As at Lowell House, the hall dining rooms feature high tables--small but significant reminders of a larger debt owed by both...
...Adams, the dynamo; for Brussels, the atom. Unlike the Chicago's World's Fair of 1900, the Exposition's first impression upon a visitor its huge aluminum-covered replica of an atom, the official symbol...
Tired of traveling outdoors, the visitor next explores the interiors of the national exhibit halls. Most tourists head first to the Soviet and American pavilions, resolved to find out which is better...
...meal a few days later, his mind fairly boils with mingled hopes and doubts. For though "there was once a time, a golden age, when such an invitation could be taken to mean one thing only," nowadays a man never can tell. So, while Marie cooks, her visitor paces. Staring through the window, he spots "two slack dead pairs of men's socks" on a laundry cord-and instantly he is jealous...