Word: trip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said the Tutor in History, "romance and adventure have disappeared from modern times. I took a bicycle trip through Ireland in its most troubled time and didn't hear a shot fired; I walked through the Ghetto with several hundred lire in my pocket in the early morning hours--and nothing happened...
Manager A. F. Hanna '27 announced last night the schedule for the University lacrosse team. Eleven games will be played and a southern trip will be made to Philadelphia and Washington on which three games will be played...
...Chicago, Capt. Barnett W. Harris of the Zoological Society and Field Museum, exhibited as part of his equipment for a collecting trip in Borneo and Java, some rifle cartridges, invented by himself, to shoot animals unconscious instead of dead. The bullets contained a chemical which, upon entering an animal's blood stream, would anesthetize. It would presumably be easier to avoid than to hit the animal's vital spots. Collector Harris proposed to put gorillas and orang-outangs to sleep at long range, bring them home alive...
...their relationship with each other, but since the moon and stars cannot be seen in summer when explorations can be made, no one has yet found the top of the world. Probably Peary, in 1909 came within 15 miles of the Pole, and that was very close. On that trip Peary lay on his stomach for 30 hours sighting to determine the exact spot, and then didn't quite succeed. In 1925 Byrd and I probably flew over the Pole, but the trembling of the plane made sighting impossible. It is believed that on his 1926 fly, Byrd passed over...
...result of the generosity of F. L. Ames '28, vice-president, who loaned the club $2000 with which to buy the plane. Since last fall it has been completely overhauled and refinished and last week it was towed to the airport. It was first taken on a trial trip by one of the experienced aviators and when it was declared to be in perect condition Crocker Snow 1L., without a parachute, took her up for a twenty minute solo...