Word: jaunting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vacation jaunt, the nine will remain in Annapolis until Friday, April 23, playing one game during that time with the Navy on April 21. On the twenty-third, the squad will journey to Washington, where on the following day, Catholic University will be encountered...
...Southern Jaunt at Stake...
...light two-wheeled carriage for a single horse, typically seating four persons, back to back. "Jaunt" originally referred to the prancing or "jaunting" of the horse, which makes a two-wheeled car jolt and tilt somewhat rakishly. By association the verb "to jaunt" came to mean the taking of a short pleasure ride...
...florid son-in-law took Rosamond and the professor's wife abroad; St. Peter escaped the jaunt with difficulty. He edited Outland s diary of the year in the cliff city, wrote a foreword and lay through long thoughtful evenings on his old box couch, covered with Tom's Navajo saddle-blanket. There was a high wind the night he had a cable from his returning wife, blew out the gas in the leaky heater. St. Peter smelled the room filling and wondered if he was obliged to save his life, now that it seemed so completed...
...There are very few courses given on Saturday and consequently students may go away over the week-end. Paris is about four hours in the train, while Strassburg, Metz, and Verdun, are within two hours motoring distance. In the winter time a jaunt of 70 kilometers will take one to the Vosges mountains, where there are excellent winter sports...