Word: jaunting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seasons of 1932 and 1933 showed Morse to be one of Harvard's fastest and most versatile performers. Especially this last season has he been a mainstay of the squad, for he could outstrip his teammates on any assignment from the 440-yard dash to a two-mile jaunt, and was always available in case of emergency to fill a gap on any middle distance run and do such a good job that the loss of the scheduled man was felt to the minimum...
...Italian salvage ship Artiglio II (TIME, June 20). Never having met the lock that could resist him, Master Courtney, who first learned his trade at the door of his mother's jam closet, expected no trouble. Last week, back in Manhattan, he told of his lock-picking jaunt...
...first congress of transocean flyers, flew Capt. George ("Yurga") Endres in the Lockheed Justice for Hungary which he flew from the U. S. last year. Just before the take-off Capt. Alexander Magyar, his transatlantic flying companion with whom Capt. Endres later quarreled, withdrew from the Rome jaunt. In his place went Capt. Julius Bittay. Arrived over Littorio Airport the plane went into a sideslip, unaccountably crashed. Before the eyes of other famed airmen gathered to greet them, Flyers Endres and Bittay died in flames...
...maps, books, artists' materials, guns, ammunition, field glasses, compasses, sound picture equipment, botanical, taxidermy, archaeological, meteorological and geological supplies & equipment, wireless sets, a kitchen, an electric power plant, suitcases, shoe boxes, beds, tents, washstands, folding chairs, three-legged stools and a shower bath & water closet. For such a jaunt there must be comfort...
Dates with the half dozen eligibles on the campus are necessarily at a premium, and when week-ends come around all manner of conveyances begin their thirty mile jaunt up the peninsula to San Francisco...