Word: ripley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cartoonist Robert L. Ripley's nationa "Believe It or Not" contest was won by Brooklyn's Clinton W. Blume with a proved story of losing an initialed scrubbing brush in 1918 near the coast of France, finding it a year later in the surf at Manhattan Beach where he was a life guard...
...Nothing is more important to the industrial existence of the United States than the preservation and rehabilitation of the railroads as such," said W. Z. Ripley, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy, in an interview yesterday...
Believe it or not, Robert L. Ripley, creator of the "Believe It or Not'' Series has just reached Sydney on the luxury liner Mariposa...
...Ripley was delighted with Sydney Harbour. He was amazed to know that the Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of the biggest of its kind in the World. He was astonished when he saw the Laughing Jackass and found not a beast, but a bird that laughed at its own jokes...
...these things interested Ripley, but the thing that grasped his interest and made his eyes sparkle, believe it or not, were two copies of TIME that I gave him-the first he had seen in Sydney...