Word: jaunt
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...addition to transmitting weather data, the stations carry on research projects. The Weather Bureau emphasizes that the student program is much more than a summer jaunt and will require a great deal of manual labor. As compensation, the students will have a chance to observe "very important and unique scientific work" in a fascinating, little known part of the world...
Hastings explained that the Band could not arrange a large enough number of concert dates in the Maryland Washington area to make the week-long trip profitable. Band members had been working on plans for the jaunt since last September but were able to line up only four of the six necessary stops...
...trip materializes next year, it will be the first time in several years that the Band has reached any point south of Princeton. In 1950 they managed a weekend jaunt to Albany and Worcester but were not able to undertake a long spring tour last year, since there was little member interest and numerous concerts were already arranged for the local area...
Instead, the Captain (played by Gene Lockhart) is weasled into taking his passengers on a jaunt to an island in the Caribbean, where life can always go on being Sunday. Unfortunately, nasty old Reality (in the shape of a U.S. Coast Guard cutter) intervenes, and there are oblique hints that you just can't escape from life...
...useful. Peter's job is to tame and tutor the circle's mischievous parcel of small fry in an impromptu summer school; his joy is to roam off into the woods alone munching an apple and chewing on the word of God. On one such solitary jaunt, he sees a vision, not God but a proof "that there is God, and that we matter...