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Word: visits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manuel Roxas. Breezy and genial, Quirino tries, at his meetings with reporters, to act like President Truman at White House press conferences, plugs his own version of the Fair Deal for the Philippines. His big selling point is his friendship with the U.S. (he wangled an invitation to visit the U.S. last summer). Filipinos generally regard him as personally honest, but much of his administration is corrupt and he is surrounded by politicians who cannot resist a chance to make a fast peso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: The Lonely Election | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Twenty-nine Austrian university students, scheduled to present a concert and folk dance exhibition at Rindge Tech Tuesday, arrived in the United States on the Holland-American liner Veendam early yesterday. The group will visit Harvard as part of a seven-month tour of American colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Austrians to Perform | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

...Debate Council will visit M.I.T. at 8 p.m. tonight to argue the question: "Resolved, That Communists should be barred from teaching positions in colleges." Harvard will defend the negative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debaters Meet M.I.T. | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

Grassolli goes often to visit his sister but is "not quite sure" what he thinks of Wellesley girls. He would like to go to graduate school to continue his Chemical Engineering studies, but he's not sure he can afford...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Seven Displaced Persons Slip Easily into University Routine | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

...Wells had restored as much glitter to Britain's tarnished tiara as any mission the English had sent abroad since the war. In London, cartoonists put Prime Minister Clement Attlee, Ernie Bevin and Sir Stafford Cripps* into tutus, hinted that they might do well to make their next visit to the U.S. on tiptoe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Coloratura on Tiptoe | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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