Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sleeping Passengers. Those who have flown as passengers to a definite destination know that, except for a few minutes after the takeoff, the trip becomes monotonous. William Bushnell Stout who makes all-metal planes for Ford Motor Co. and who is an executive of both Northwest Airways and Stout Air Services, remarked at Lehigh University last week that two out of five air passengers sleep enroute. In Germany last week one George Hermann slept so soundly while the Junkers plane on which he was a passenger bucked and twisted to a crash, that he knew nothing of the trouble until...
...into the water. Last week his Ricaurte was not yet repaired. The U.S. War Department offered him an Army plane wherewith to complete his voyage. Said Lt. Benny, sharply aware of his flight's significance to his native Colombia: "It was very considerate. However, I shall finish my trip in my own plane...
...clock Christmas night the University Instrumental Clubs will entrain from the South Station on their annual Christmas trip. The group will be composed of 51 men, including managers, a doctor, and a graduate member who will act in a advisory capacity. The schedule, aside from the regular concerts includes many divertisements designed to fill up, the odd hours intervening between the train and the concert hall...
...western trip will include the University of Chicago; Marquette University, at Milwaukee; Carleton University, at Northfield, Minnesota; and Grennell College, at Grennell, Iowa. A fifth college, with which negotiations are at present being conducted, will also be included in this tour...
...faint chorus of critics asked by what token the U. S. Navy Department was bearing the cost of the wholly unofficial Hoover trip. The Prince of Wales, it was pointed out, paid $25,000 out of his own pocket for his African tour, though he went as an official ambassador from Britain...