Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result the same ten months sees the impossible New York to Paris flight accomplished and a Boston-New York boat, on its regularly scheduled trip, wrecked twenty miles from its starting place. Wind and water combined to take the lives of three of the Coast Guardsmen detailed to rescue the boat's passengers; another tragedy, and three more lives added to the endless roll...
...Continental Divide. Returning to Washington where Jessie lay in childbirth, he spread over her bed a ragged flag, said: "This flag was raised over the highest peak of the Rocky Mountains. I have brought it to you." Then, with Jessie's aid, he wrote a report of his trip which exploded the myth that the "Great American Desert" lay between Missouri and the Rockies. The public read the document avidly; the movement westward was stimulated...
...mont saw the Oregon Trail as busy as a barnyard in mating season, crossed the snow-deep Sierras in midwinter, visited Captain Suiter's fort in the fertile Sacramento valley. Ideas of manifest destiny were firmly planted in Frémont's head. So, on his next trip to California, he began to write history instead of geography. Mexican General Castro ordered him out of California. He went up to Oregon and waited for an excuse to raise the U. S. flag over California. An Indian attack gave it to him. Quickly he assembled U. S. settlers, made...
...home was filled with "hundred-pound buckskin sacks, worth not far from $25,000 each." California's richest man and most popular idol, Frémont was elected U. S. Senator. He spent little time in Washington and was defeated for a second term. So he took a trip to Europe with Jessie...
...University schedule includes 14 games with a southern trip of four games at its beginning, while the Freshmen will play five games, two of them away from home. Informal practice has been going on under the direction of J. B. Lane '28, captain of this year's team...