Word: pickaback
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dreams, Dr. Thomas C. Poulter, Polar explorer, saw a 37-ton Jules Verne monster sidling over ice crevasses, carrying an airplane pickaback, and accommodating in its insides everything four explorers would need for a twelve-month tour of the Antarctic...
...pity the young man obliged. Where upon the pickaback hitchhiker turned into an evil jinni, clamped naked, hairy thighs around the young man's neck forever after...
...establishment of a "pickaback scholar" plan at Vassar is much to be hoped for . . . As members of an educational institution we must surely recognize the benefits of this new plan and encourage its inception here. --Vassar Miscellany News
...noted in the field of modern education. Through an "undergraduate faculty," the Cambridge plan offers an educational opportunity to worthy high school graduates unable for various reasons to attend college . . . Such a tremendously important and progressive plan elicits our strongest praise and approval. For the advantages of the "pickaback scholar" system are numerous and far-reaching. It provides for further education, not only through classes, but also through the use of the library and the general introduction of eager pupils to the college as a place of learning. It offers a means for the scholarship student to gain financial help...
Anent the British transatlantic plane Mercury [TIME, Aug. 8], is '"piggy-back," or "pic-a-back," or "pickaback" correct...