Word: trip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gatti-Casazza, the general manager, frequently protests against sending the entire company to Atlanta. From his standpoint, you can't blame him, for his job is to run the company, and if possible make financial ends meet. The Atlanta trip each year is a losing venture financially, and it is a huge undertaking, but I always tell him that as long as I live he'll have to include the Atlanta season in his plans. Why? Well, I fell in love with Atlanta twelve years ago, and it is a love to which I have been faithful...
Barbee in the meantime was breezing along in great shape. He allowed single scratch hits in the third, fourth, and fifth, but after that he retired the side in order. He fanned nine men, two of them-pinch-hitters, and did not issue a free trip to first. Behind him, Captain Todd played a great game in left field, and in spite of the tricky air currents, he took care of the five flies that came his way flawlessly...
...Warner has taken part in a number of expeditions in China as Fellow of the Fogg Museum for Research in Asia. In the summer of 1923 he left for China and prepared there for a year's trip into the interior...
...seeker for archaeological information in China," says the account of Mr. Warner's recent trip, "follows any clues that come his way, and generally finds that they lead, not to the promised Tang masterpiece, but to some modern atrocity. The expedition went up many of these blind alleys, but one morning it stopped to look at some caves said to contain ancient carvings. The cave turned out to be one of the most important finds of the expedition...
...blew dismayed this crew or troubled their artist minds; they fired salutes beneath Capital's boots, with every expectation of booming gales of applause from "workers." The cover design was a brawny miner with an idea bursting from his skull. Scott Nearing, famed sociologist, just back from a trip to Moscow, Kharkov, Rostov, Tiflis and other centres of culture, limned a deplorable contrast between the mammon-ridden U.S. and progressive Soviet Russia. Robert W. Dunn, young Yale Communist, described with devastating irony the activities of a Massachusetts labor-spy. "Bad Bishop" William Montgomery Brown contributed his revolutionary blessing...