Word: jaunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simple pleasure, and demanded and got more. One such man made a trip at government expense to Boston, and, according to Brown, brought back a large supply of "hair tonic for the boys." Boston was too petty for the imaginative Mr. Brown; he went off for a pleasant little jaunt to Paris on government funds and almost succeeded in bringing back a Turkish dancer. In between times he made trips to Washington to take liquor to his uncle, the late Mr. Doak, Secretary of Labor, "who had heart disease...
Because fewer ducks are winging South each season, the Foundation has been inclined to discount the importance of overshooting, modern firearms, lax game law enforcement as causes of duck decline. Last July it sent researchers on a 3400-mi. jaunt through the heart of North America's chief wild duck nursery-the prairies of North Dakota and Montana in the U. S., Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta in Canada-to find out what was happening to the ducks before they started South. The surveyors found the region, from a duck's viewpoint, in a sorry state. Where ducks once...
...game is now history, but for the benefit of those who are still in ignorance the score was 19-6. Three perfectly executed passes and one of the longest runs on record turned the trick. Locke's jaunt down the field on the kickoff will go down in the annals as one of the most thrilling exhibitions of football seen in the series. Outrushed by Yale from scrimmages 152 yards to 78, Harvard managed to keep the game on ice after the touchdown by Haley after three minutes of the first quarter had elapsed...
...than Italo Balbo's record hop with ten planes across the South Atlantic in 1931. One plane with engine trouble lagged 40 mi. behind. Around the Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington last week it was jubilantly hinted that Squadron 5F might be sent on a 3,000-mi. jaunt up the west coast to San Diego, Calif., might even go to Italy next year to return Italo Balbo's recent call...
TIME-worthy Tabloid Sirs: I am not only a cover-to-cover reader of TIME but my freakishness includes the insane longing for a similar version of the day's news to make me forget the trials of a daily subway jaunt...