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Word: tripped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Golden's revival is well worth a trip to the Colonial because a great American actor is playing in a fine American play...

Author: By V. F. Jr., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/2/1938 | See Source »

Last week Neville Chamberlain returned from his Scottish salmon-fishing trip. The fishing had been poor but London toy-shops sprouted timely little booted Neville Chamberlain dolls holding a rod & reel in one hand, a little sign saying PEACE MAKER in the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: State-of-the-World | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...students, groups of pupils last year went to visit coal mines, steel mills, farms, TVA. This experiment was financed by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Last week, after careful tests, Ohio State's Dr. Louis Rath, an evaluator for P. E. A., reported that in a ten-day trip and six weeks of related classroom study, high-school juniors gained 15% in consistency of their thinking, became markedly more liberal, matured two years in thinking power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Progressives' Progress | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...ears and her voice replaced his useless eyes, the horse no longer picked his feet high off the ground at every step in fear that a ditch, a tree, a root or a hollow might trip him. Gradually he became more & more excited when he was in groups of other horses, used to lunge and try to race. Once, when Miss Getzendaner gave the first signal at a ditch, he jumped it instead. She decided then to try to train him to jump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Elmer Gantry | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...back into the dress business. The trouble is that Martha is a smarter guy than Harry: Before she is through with him he is neglecting the dress business to keep track of her and has swindled his partner out of $15,000 to oblige her with a trip around the world. When detectives beat him to the boat, Harry makes a getaway, wires Martha the whereabouts of all his cash and tells her to meet him in Philadelphia. In her gleeful reply Martha thanks him for the money, bids good-by and nuts to him in a telegram which makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Smart Guy's Fall | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

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