Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Publicity is a prime requisite of any Goodwill trip. When the Hoover-bearing battleship Maryland passed down South America's west coast, it was found that the high Andes were an obstacle to telling the world by ship's radio what the traveller was saying and doing. The Navy Department therefore obligingly ordered the cruiser Rochester to steam westward from Panama to the vicinity of Galapagos and thence relay the Maryland's rebounding messages to the big naval radio station at Balboa.* Notwithstanding this assistance, the Maryland found Andean ether conditions so bad that no messages could...
Names of 45 men who are to go on the western trip of the University Instrumental Clubs were announced last night by H. deW. Wood '30, manager. The list is not yet in final form since it has not been decided whether or not K. A. Perry '28, will accompany the Clubs as ventriloquist, nor is it known who will go in the role of medical adviser. In the past, a student in the Medical School has generally performed this function for the Clubs...
Contrary to former announcement L. C. Keyes '24, dean of the Junior Class, will be unable to accompany the Instrumental Clubs on the trip...
Ecuador. The gunboat Cleveland had steamed down from Panama to convey the travellers up the shallow estuary to Guayaquil, 40 miles inland. Soon after Saturday's sunup the trip began. Ecuador's cruiser, the Cotopaxi, came proudly downstream to Puna Island with a welcoming committee...
...caller called Casey at a half past jour, Kissed his wife at the station door, Mounted to the cabin with his orders in his hand, And took his farewell trip to the promised land...