Word: jaunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hanover, N.H., where he retired so that he could lope through its wooded hills, he put a "Private" sign on his door in the Dartmouth College Field House. He ate such unorthodox foods as fried scallops before going out for a two-mile jaunt. He made friends with a local Swedish-speaking minister, told a visiting newshawk that he liked the minister "because he can't put what I say into the Bible...
...Southern Governors, instead of being anti-Roosevelt, now began to scramble to be his next Vice President (see p. 24). Franklin Roosevelt told reporters he was getting a tremendous lift out of his jaunt...
...After a jaunt around Harvard's various edifices and points of interest, members of the Chaplain and Navy Training Schools will be entertained this Sunday at tea and toast juggling functions at Kirkland and Dunster...
Following the big race the J.V.'s and the first 150 pound boat will meet similar crews from Tech over the same course. Next big event for the Varsity and J.V.'s will be a jaunt to Philadelphia to race against Navy, Penn, and Cornell a week from Saturday...
...most poignant memory of our first day at Radcliffe concerns the ladders of Briggs Hall. On the first trip up to the fourth deck we labored with a load of luggage. The second jaunt was a struggle to keep a toehold under a four-foot stack of publications. Last cargo hauled by this Naval Transportation Service was fifteen pounds of bedding...