Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to The Book of Jubilees, Abraham's father, Terah, made small clay images which Abraham as a boy peddled in the street. Author Hill gives in detail an imaginary account of a trip by the boy Abraham to the great ziggurat of Ur, to present to the priests one of his best doves as a sacrifice to the city's patron deity, Nannar, the moon...
...with crew of three sailed 5,000 miles down the African coast and across the Atlantic, for his feat earned an 18-month jail sentence. Tracing Charles Darwin's 19th century world voyage in the Beagle, Orsborne in 1951 sailed the ketch Argosy from England, ended his trip abruptly in Trinidad when arrested for arms smuggling. His boast: "I did things no other man has done and stayed alive...
...started out as just another patent medicine. During a trip to Madagascar, Paris Pharmacist Georges Feuillet, who was already turning out 15 patent drugs, developed furunculosis (boils), and began experimenting with a new remedy. He used a combination of vitamin F* and an organic tin compound containing iodine (called di-iodo-diethyl of tin), which he imagined had a healing effect on skin. Feuillet took some of his capsules, then sent them to a friend, the head of a military hospital, who tried them out on his patients and found them "successful." Soon the Ministry of Health cleared them...
Though customarily the fountainhead of the sound and the fury, old (88) Architectitan Frank Lloyd Wright found himself on the receiving end of a scorcher from Leon Chatelain, president of the American Institute of Architects. Just returned from a globe-girdling trip, Architect Chatelain candidly assessed Tokyo's famed earthquake-proof Imperial Hotel, designed by Wright, and finished in 1922. The verdict: "One of the most horrible buildings I've ever been in. It is dark and dismal and looks grotesque...
Last week Edelman put his therapy to the test. He cajoled his patient out to New York's La Guardia Field, picked up a pair of round-trip tickets to Detroit, and led Don onto a plane. By the time they landed in Detroit, both travelers were convinced that Edelman had something on the ball. Don enjoyed the trip so thoroughly that he even entertained the notion of continuing the joy ride all the way to Los Angeles. Hypnotist Edelman took a squint at the future and had no doubts at all about what he saw. Said...