Word: ripley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nine years Robert L. Ripley has been producing a newspaper feature (TIME, March 26, 1928). At the head are the words "Believe It or Not-by Ripley." Below are cartoons and descriptions of astounding freaks, seeming impossibilities. At the bottom appears the legend: "On request Robert L. Ripley will send proofs and details of anything depicted by him." Recently a volume of selections from the series was produced by mass-production-publishers Simon & Schuster...
Cartoonist Hix does not seem quite so able with his pencil as Cartoonist Ripley. Astounder Ripley, after nine years, does not seem quite so astounding as fresh Astounder...
...Hallowell '32 clipped 2 2-5 seconds from the mark set by Ripley of Dartmouth in the Stadium for the half mile. Hallowell's time was 1 minute, 56 4-5 seconds for the fastest 880 ever run at Exeter...
Beginning Monday, May 20, there will be held an exhibition of some of the work of several members of the staff of the School of Architecture, in the Old Fogg Museum. Professors Haffner and Conant, and Messrs. Murphy, Warren, and Ripley will be represented in the exhibition, which will include water colours, oil paintings, drawings, and other media...
...report of the Harvard Business School was limited to interstate transmission of electrical energy in 1926 no comparison was made with any previous period; and no indication was given that the whole trend of the electrical industry, as shown by Professor Ripley and by reports of the Federal Trade Commisson itself, is in the direction of interstate transmission...