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Word: hops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They react sharply and lastingly to experiences like Sara Spain's (the heroine's) rescue from the surf by Siercy Hodd, her sweetheart and lover in lazy, lovely Georgia. They abominate the starched prosiness of the northern Haskell clan into which Sara marries, but they are game. After screaming, "Hop-toads!" at elder Haskells, they apologize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: May 9, 1927 | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...Lake, Ariz. But he did not leave them as expected. His seaplane, the Santa Maria, in which he had skirted Africa, spun over the Atlantic, swooped over the jungles of Brazil, threaded the West Indies, visited New Orleans and Texas, and which he was now refueling for the next hop, to San Diego and the Pacific, lay in still water surrounded by a Joseph's coat of many colors-spilled oil. From a rowboat full of boys nearby fluttered a yellow butterfly, a lighted match. Poof! The Joseph's coat burst into flaming flags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Poof! | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

Last week his second hop was to be across the South Atlantic, from Bolama, Portuguese Guinea, to Natal, Brazil (1,715 miles), not far out, he turned back landed on the island of Bissagos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flying at Large | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...intervals, but from their sound it was plain that the wrecked Curtiss racer was invisible from above. Flyer Bettis eyed the downslope of the mountain and started creeping on his three good members, with a limp thing dragging over the windfalls. At clearings he would pull himself erect and hop along from tree to bush, every jolt costing him a groan. At seven o'clock by his watch he heard automobiles, and two hours later he came to a field's edge. Occasionally a car went by, but smashed jaws cannot shout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: On Bald Eagle Ridge | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

Amundsen. While their airship Norge gathered her strength at Leningrad for the hop from Europe to Spitzbergen, Explorers Amundsen and Ellsworth disembarked from their steamer in ice-choked Kings Bay and set about unloading a cargo of hydrogen gas, food, and other materials. A mooring mast was standing, and a hangar going up, to receive the Norge, which was expected very shortly with her crew of 16 men and one terrier-mascot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Polar Pilgrims: May 3, 1926 | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

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