Word: rippings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prevent oscillations, can steer to a certain extent, can avoid trees, buildings and can be almost comfortable. He can, experience has shown again and again, drop 600 ft. without losing a particle of consciousness. He has indeed to rehearse his movements, but the pulling of the conveniently placed "rip cord"-a flexible cable which releases the pilot chute-is the easiest and most natural thing...
...President Coolidge was led to a seat next the Club's president, William E. Brigham. Most of the President's Cabinet was scattered through the throng, all regardless of rank. Ambassadors passed the salt to Senators. Senators hobnobbed over their soup with the men who write, and who sometimes rip, them up from day to day. Bankers and ballplayers, Bandmaster Sousa, Governors Smith of New York and Cox of Massachusetts, publishers aplenty?all in the flesh, eating and laughing and talking...
...first dropkicks scored by Yale this year, and supporters of the Blue were becoming fearful lest this defect might prove an important factor in the big games ahead. Scott is also a first-class defensive back, in-fact almost the equal of Allen. If the speedy Tiger backs rip through the Yale line as they did through Harvard's he will be an invaluable asset to the Elis...
Crowds of students who braved the downpour were thrilled time and again to see Captain Maphis, Frost, Walp, Diffey or Cuddy rip through the defending eleven and race down the field. Coach Neale kept shifting his backs, but the march toward the uprights was not halted...
...Treasure Island. Not Stevenson, but Smith has written itmple story of an undermanned ship and a force gang. It was the daring plan of his great uncle, the cold, the cool, the calculating Murray, on land the inspired follower of King James, at sea the terrible pirate, Captain Rip-Rap. With young Ormerod is taken his redoubtable friend the Dutchman Peter Corlaer, a veritable Lionel Strongfort for bodily prowess. With them also goes the red-haired boy Darby to whom the taste of piracy is sweet. At sea, they join Murray's company in two ships. One of them...