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Word: tripped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kalgoorlie, Australia, she read Kipling's Just-So Stories?"Old Man Kangaroo" and "Yellow Dog Dingo"?to her two sons. For years Kipling was their favorite and many a long trip was eased by repetitions of the doings of the 'Stute Fish, the Elephant's Child, and Mr. One-Two-Three- Where's-My-Breakfast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Open Doors | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

Last week Baron Ebbisham. who as Sir George Rowland Blades was two years ago Lord Mayor of London, returned to London from a business trip to the U. S. and imparted to his countrymen some shrewd advice. "I want to say a word." he began, "against slavish copying of methods which may have produced prosperity in other lands. Take such experiments as American mass production methods or German cartelized [trust] control of entire industries. These may be only passing phases. At any rate remember that our traditional lines of development have little in common with those countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Class v. Mass | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

After the Southern trip where Coach Mitchell's charges walloped the ball at a fast clip in the face of ragged early-season hurling, the team has slowed down and batting averages have gradually fallen to their present position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weak Batting, Good Fielding and Fine Hurling Characterize First Half of Baseball Team's Season | 5/10/1929 | See Source »

William Kissam Vanderbilt, pausing last week at Malaga, Spain, on his round-the-world yachting trip, gave a too large check to a Malaga merchant. Honest, the tradesman offered change. The Vanderbilt answer, as reported by the New York Times: "Keep the change, and the microbes with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...record for women: 26 hrs., 21 min. 32 sec.-4½ hrs. more than the previous record (Louise McPhetridge Thaden of California). Miss Smith told about being airsick: "I ate an orange but it wouldn't stay put. . . . Then I tried a tomato but it had a round trip ticket, too. I drank some water and it was the same story over again so I finally got tired and gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

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