Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decided to make their venture a cooperative proposition. Instead of a jungle race, they planned to drive by automobile from London to Singapore. Eagerly they sought advice from a hundred or more experts-in government offices, explorers' clubs, consulates and travel bureaus. Almost everyone assured the boys the trip was impossible. They pooled their resources and-being adventurers in the modern age of advertising-sent letters to more than 2,000 industrial firms, asking for help in return for publicity. "It was amazing," said Cowell, "how the firms came through ... By the summer of 1955 we had everything...
...says a new man in the company, "I'm $30 in the hole on that last business trip I made. The cashier says it's common practice to make it up on the expense account by putting it in as entertainment or something. What do you think-should I?" Does Joe say that it is common practice and let it go at that? Or does he tell the new man it is wrong and should not be done? Or does he lay the issue on the line and tell him to make up his own mind...
...story-lawyers, teachers, a priest-should have been recorded if they had existed. But there was not a trace. Bridey-whose name Barker now spells "Bridie" on the advice of the Irish -had given names of Belfast streets and obscure towns through which she passed on her honeymoon trip and on a journey to the sea as a child. He could find only some of the places, and even they made no sensible pattern of travel...
...from among plans submitted by eight leading U.S. architectural firms. The problem set by the State Department's Foreign Buildings Operations: design a building "which is distinguished and will reflect credit on the United States," yet remain "appropriate to the site and country." Surveying the site during a trip to London last year, Saarinen (whose most recent projects have been General Motors' $68 million Technical Center in Detroit and M.I.T.'s tricornered Kresge Auditorium and cylindrical chapel-TIME, Dec. 5) decided to scale his building to the proportions of the square's older Georgian buildings, conform...
...rereading a cable that had just come from the U.S. The year was 1926, and for Mordecai Johnson, 36, the news that he had been elected president of Howard University in Washington, D.C. should have been cause for celebration. But, recalls Johnson, it was not: "My happiness on my trip was destroyed...