Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...lavish apartment, then into a lavish house in Munich, began pouring his money into oil and real-estate speculations. Most of these turned out badly. Lawsuits popped. The inventor's health began to crack, but he labored on, propping his strength with bromides and antipyrin. On a visit to the U. S., he met Thomas Edison, was deeply impressed by the U. S. inventor's simple, abstemious habits. When Diesel took his leave, Edison joked: "Don't eat too much...
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...Charles Littel, President of Bergen Junior College, fresh from a visit to Harvard University, told the Ridgefield Park High School P. T. A. last night that the sight of unshaven, unkempt men studying there only strengthened his belief in co-educational institutions of learning...
During the day-long program the alumni will visit classes and laboratories, lunch in the college dining halls, see the Harvard-Yale football game replayed on the screen, and take part in an afternoon symposium. Visits to the cyclotron atom-smasher and special tours of Widener are scheduled...
Last week Balkan statesmen were again getting the call from the Nazis, and Locomotive Führer went to see Nazidom's Führer. The conference took place secretly in Berlin. Afterwards only terse communiqués took note of the visit, and all the world took it for granted that Bulgaria would soon join the scramble for the Axis bandwagon. But a whole week passed by, and Bulgaria did not sign. Boris had weighed the odds and come to a pretty solution-for the time being...