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Word: vermonter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...visible obstacle except lack of inactive stands in the way. For skiing and hiking three sections especially could be exploited at a minimum cost, the O. C. using the already extant Youth Hostels, available for a dollar per head; around Plymouth, N. H., Stowe, Vt., and Putney School, southern Vermont. Here both the beginner, who longs for the graceful swells of a golf course, and the experienced-but-not-ski-team-material-individual, could find plenty of amusement and exercise. During the spring, canoe trips--water facilities are excellent--bike trips, wiener roasts, barndancing, and even year round projects could...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NORTH OF BOSTON | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...fought bitterly with her mother; Joe has had a personal interview with President Theodore Roosevelt and has not been impressed; Flossie, her parents blandly unaware of it, has acquired the neurosis which will give her whole life shape; the children have been vaccinated and have visited aunts in Vermont; and Gurlie, at the end, is beginning to show a sourness toward Joe which suggests unhappy events for a few volumes to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Edible Slice-of-Life | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

Built on the principle that "the best training for democratic youth lies in the practice of democracy, fellowship, and hard work," the plan calls for the opening of a William James Camp in Sharon, Vermont, on the site of an abandoned C.C.C. camp. Named after the great American philosopher, the establishment would accommodate about 40 youths from all walks of life who would work on jobs selected by local citizens and supervised by local...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRADUATES HELP IN PLAN TO BUILD BETTER YOUTH CAMPS | 11/26/1940 | See Source »

...after two or three. Dr. Raab believed that he was on the threshold of an important discovery. At that point (1938) Hitler swallowed Austria, and Dr. Raab left immediately, "by preference." He came to the U. S., where he had once been a Rockefellow, settled at the University of Vermont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: X-Ray for Heart Attack | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

Late returns Wednesday morning left the electoral vote of a few close States still in doubt. Willkie had, besides Maine (5) and Vermont (3), Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Victory | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

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